A teacher in Louisiana and Mississippi makes around forty to fifty thousand dollars( $40.000 to $50.000) annually. Usually, that person must complete four years of undergraduate studies, then another two years of post-graduate work, depending on the person’s schedule to earn a master’s degree…
Some Masters’s programs can be completed in less than two years if the student goes to school full-time, but it can also take more time. So on average, it takes about six years to get to the level of becoming a Teacher.
During the course of those studies, a young person can rack up student loan debts of ninety to a hundred thousand dollars.
A police recruit spends an average of 13 to 19 weeks in an academy. During training, a police cadet is paid a salary; the salary will depend on the city, town, or municipality where the cadet is being trained.
Teachers are sometimes forced to use their own money to purchase critical supplies to help their students. This is despite the low salaries they are paid. No one becomes anything without teachers, yet teachers are not given the compensation and respect they deserve.
Young people are [not] lining up to be teachers and for good reasons. Factors impacting teacher retention include heavy workload, low pay, and escalating living costs, with some 80% of survey respondents saying it was difficult to find affordable housing close to where they teach. Many also cited a lack of support from district administrators.
Officers receive a full starting salary while training at a police academy. In most cases, the police academy is a six-month training period, including the NYPD and LAPD, in which you are trained in the law, how to use a weapon, and how to conduct yourself as an officer of the law. Once you successfully graduate police academy, you will likely get a bump in salary. Depending on the police department where you work, this salary bump can be as much as $2,000 or $3,000 more than what you earned while training.
The Los Angeles Police Department, for example, starts new recruits at $67,546 a year. In Philadelphia, recruits in the police academy earn $56,227, while in Austin, Texas, cadets receive $50,000 in base salary. Police cadets can also enroll in the department’s health care plan. They become eligible for employer- and self-funded retirement-planning options, such as a pension, 401k, or a 457b deferred retirement savings plan. During your first year of service, you also get paid vacation days and paid sick leave.
If you have a college degree, or even college credits, at the time of hire. There can be many other incentives, depending on the police force. In Austin, for example, you may be eligible for an additional $100 per month if you have an associate’s degree or $220 monthly if you have a bachelor’s degree. If you’re bilingual, expect an extra $175 per month in pay in Austin, Texas.
A cop in Suffolk county New York makes a base salary of $149,162; working overtime, that cop can make exponentially more than a US Senator.
Factors impacting teacher retention include heavy workload, low pay, and escalating living costs, with some 80% of survey respondents saying it was difficult to find affordable housing near where they teach. Many also cited a lack of support from district administrators.
Some police salaries are so outrageous that some people are beginning to speak out in disgust. On one social media site, one such disgusted person wrote.
MS of Science from Harrisburg University of Science and Technology (Graduated 2020). Police & Firefighters in California are the highest compensated in the entire world. Whoever tells you that is not true they are probably talking about the lower cost of living cities of California. Here’s an example of a police officer in San Mateo, California. He joined the force in May 2019, and his total compensation for 2020 was 221K. Google engineers in the first three years don’t bring this kind of money. I work a salary job, have an advanced degree, and live in San Mateo; I don’t bring this kind of money home. This is INSANE. The highest-paid cop in Oakland made 640K a year, more than the President of the US. Of course, cops will be cocky and disrespectful when you pay them like CA does, walking with a gun and a bulletproof vest and making 3 – 4 times the national average. Police are so out of reality that $250 (minimum ticket in Bay Area) might seem like not a lot of money, especially since they live on 200K+ income. People sympathize with cops (like I used to) as they believe their “hard job” is not appreciated and they don’t get paid enough. No way should a police officer should get more than a soldier on the battlefield thousands of miles away from home.
THE SO-CALLED DANGER LEVEL
Workplace safety is very important in all industries. Avoiding accidents and fatalities is a huge consideration for all businesses, from small privately-owned companies to large nationwide corporations. Positions like teaching and administration have fatality rates just slightly above zero because mistakes in these industries rarely result in physical consequences. The world’s most dangerous jobs are on the other end of the spectrum. These jobs bear a far greater statistical risk of physical injury and death. (facty.com)
- Logging workers. Fatal injury rate: 111 per 100,000 workers. …
- Aircraft pilots and flight engineers. Fatal injury rate: 53 per 100,000 workers. …
- Derrick operators in oil, gas, and mining. …
- Roofers. …
- Garbage collectors. …
- Ironworkers. …
- Delivery drivers.
- Farmers
- firefighting supervisors
- Power linemen
- Agricultural workers
- Crossing guards
- Crane operators
- Construction helpers
- Landscaping supervisors
- Highway maintenance workers
- Cement masons
- Small engine mechanics
- Supervisors of Mechanics
- Heavy vehicle mechanics
- Grounds maintenance workers
- cops
- Maintenance workers
- Construction workers
- Mining machine operators
So that you have an idea when you hear cops, their unions, and their enablers complain about the dangerous job they have, you have some perspective.
Why bother going to college for seven or more years to get qualified to become a teacher? Take on $90.000 in debt when you can go into a police academy for 13 to 19 weeks and start receiving a salary and all kinds of benefits immediately.
The emphasis is clearly not on educating our youth; it is about giving them the least educational opportunities so that they can continue to become fodder for the prison industrial complex.
Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.