{"id":2254,"date":"2007-04-06T09:29:35","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T17:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/04\/sergeant_you_glad_neither_side_can_agree_on_a_contract.html"},"modified":"2007-04-06T09:29:35","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T17:29:35","slug":"sergeant_you_gl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/sergeant_you_gl.html","title":{"rendered":"Sergeant You Glad Neither Side Can Agree On A Contract?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The idea that an arbitration panel is to blame for what seems more and more like the worst contract ever<\/a>* seems hard to believe:<\/p>\n

With city cops among the worst-paid police in the nation, NYPD officers are increasingly turning down promotions to sergeant — because the pay raise isn’t big enough.<\/p>\n

Under the contract imposed by a state arbitration panel in 2005, rookie cops are paid $25,100 a year while in the academy. Their maximum base pay tops out at $59,588 after seven years.<\/p>\n

Cops promoted to the rank of sergeant earn just $61,093 — not even $2,000 a year more to compensate them for the increased responsibilities.<\/p>\n

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said yesterday the pay scale has had “significant ramifications.”<\/p>\n

“What’s happened is all the raises have been compacted. They’ve been stretched out. So the desirability . . . of moving ahead in the ranks has been, I think, impacted,” Kelly said.<\/p>\n

Of the 20,867 officers eligible to take the Feb. 3 sergeant exam, only 3,856 sat for the test — and just 255 passed.<\/p>\n

By comparison, 7,154 of 22,927 eligible officers took the test in December 2003, the last time it was offered before the current police contract was imposed. From that pool, 1,729 became sergeants.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

A cop who recently passed the sergeant exam said he considered not taking the test because of the poor pay. “It’s like, what’s the point?” he said.<\/p>\n

The reluctance of many cops to seek a promotion comes as officers are leaving the NYPD in large numbers for other departments that pay more.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the best news:<\/p>\n

City Hall and the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association are battling over a new contract. But the talks broke down repeatedly, and the negotiations are now in arbitration.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

*See also, for example<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The idea that an arbitration panel is to blame for what seems more and more like the worst contract ever* seems hard to believe: With city cops among the worst-paid police in the nation, NYPD officers are increasingly turning down promotions to sergeant — because the pay raise isn’t big enough. Under the contract imposed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i_dont_get_it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","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=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}