Firefighters are just as bad with overtime.
Personally, I don’t think any people who decide to pursue civil service careers should become millionaires.
I’d also like to see the payroll reported as “total compenstation” i.e. include the cost of paid health insurance and annual increase in accrued pension benefits. If they did that, the numbers would be much higher.
The unions only like to talk (complain) about starting salaries, and NEVER talk about the value of their taxpayer funded pensions and health benefits. In the private sector, people must nowadays save for their own retirement and make significant contributions to their health insurance plans.
One that made me angry was I got the munchies one night at about 1am. A weeknight. I was driving about 10 minutes to a 24 hour restaurant.. I passed maybe 2 cars on the way. But I hit a police road block, with about 10 police, I was the only car I saw the whole time I was pulled over. I’m assuming they were all on overtime.