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FOP meeting with mayor a big disappointment

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RE: FOP meeting with mayor a big disappointment

December 5th, 2008 @ 10:46PM (15 years ago)

Has anybody found Jane yet or is she still on the run. Or maybe the Feds are tasering her trying to get her to expose this thief.

RE: FOP meeting with mayor a big disappointment

December 7th, 2008 @ 2:27PM (15 years ago)

It does cost the city about a million a year to pay the firefighters their incentive pay. Let me see if I can show how.

The 3100 is calculated on a 40 hour week - 52 weeks a year. That means that it comes to about an additional 1.49 an hour. So a firefighter who makes, say, $10 an hour (yeah, their pay is weird) - makes in reality 11.49 an hour, with the incentive. They also get their weird longetivity pay (which they also weren't using to calculate OT and was part of the lawsuit, but I'll leave this out for this argument.) So, the different between their time and a half is $15, if calculated on the 10 rate, and 17.23 an hour, if calculated with the incentive. 2.23 an hour more. Multipy that by the standard 16 hours of OT they get a week - that adds $35.68 a week - for an addition 1855 a year, per firefighter. Multiply THAT times 700 firefighters (thereabouts) and it is about an extra 1.2 million a year.

But if they city didn't like it, they should have tried to change it, NOT ignore it. It's been that way since, what, 1980?