{"id":2103,"date":"2007-02-12T10:51:21","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T18:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/02\/the_base_salary_is_not_so_great_but_you_should_see_what_they_make_with_commissions.html"},"modified":"2007-02-12T10:51:21","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T18:51:21","slug":"the_base_salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/the_base_salary.html","title":{"rendered":"The Base Salary Is Not So Great But You Should See What They Make With Commissions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everything’s working out exactly as planned<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Low pay is forcing more and more NYPD recruits to bail out of the Police Academy before they can graduate, the Daily News has learned. Nearly 7% of the current class quit in the first four weeks, sources told The News.<\/p>\n

That’s about twice the first-month dropout rate of the July 2005 class, the last academy class before a state arbitration panel slashed starting pay from $36,878 to $25,100.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

The NYPD always loses cops in the academy, especially in the opening weeks when newbies first encounter the department’s tough training. Before the pay cut, about 3% of the class dropped out in the first four weeks. But since January last year, between 6% and 7% of the class has left in the opening weeks.<\/p>\n

More than half — 57% — of the 95 recruits who have already left the current class said the chief reason they were leaving was because they just couldn’t live on a starting cop’s salary, sources told The News.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

“It’s kind of scary how poor I am right now,” said a 25-year-old cop in the current academy class.<\/p>\n

He said he borrowed $2,000 to cover the costs to buy his uniform, nightstick, memo book, handcuffs and rain gear. The department buys new cops a gun and pepper spray.<\/p>\n

The Bronx resident, who didn’t want his name used, hoped he could balance his checkbook to make it through the six-month training program, after which the salary rises to the slightly more livable $32,700.<\/p>\n

“I guess it’s part of the whole boot-camp, break-you-so-they-can-rebuild-you thing,” he said. “But you feel like the city is giving you the back of the hand when you look at your paycheck stub.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Earlier: I’ll Show You What Selling Out The Unborn Really Looks Like<\/a>; New York’s Finest Receiving Food Stamps?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everything’s working out exactly as planned: Low pay is forcing more and more NYPD recruits to bail out of the Police Academy before they can graduate, the Daily News has learned. Nearly 7% of the current class quit in the first four weeks, sources told The News. That’s about twice the first-month dropout rate of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}