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.
I estimate for a 30 year career, the pension benefit alone is 25% more wages per hour. For police its a 20 year career, so more like 50 more base salary with a guarunteed benefit plan.
Sure the unions can make it look small by assuming incredible compounding growth, but that may or may not happen. Eg.. look how the market tanked over the last few weeks.