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$1,400 every two weeks just ain't cuttin it. I hope the next contract will revise these pay scales? I hate living pay check to pay check.

$1,400 every two weeks just ain't cuttin it. I hope the next contract will revise these pay scales? I hate living pay check to pay check.

We make and take home a lot more than other places. You should be happy!

I have way to many bills. I like my toys and I have to pay child support for two kids.

I have way to many bills. I like my toys and I have to pay child support for two kids.

Liking toys is nice...but when you can't afford them.....and if it makes it harder to pay support for you children so they can eat, etc get rid of the toys until a time when you can better afford them. Stop whining!! We ALL are struggling in some fashion or other, belts are a bit tightened for even those of us that know how to live within our means.

I have way to many bills. I like my toys and I have to pay child support for two kids.
dont play into this guys game... he is baiting you

$1,400 every two weeks just ain't cuttin it. I hope the next contract will revise these pay scales? I hate living pay check to pay check.

Maybe you should have thought about this before you decided to get into Law Enforcement. You picked the wrong career to make big $$$.

I think we can just about rest assured that we will be VERY LUCKY to get anything above what the federal cost of living index is for the next couple of years. Purse strings are gonna be tight for a while. Thank you to the PBA and our Sheriff for getting us what we got in this contract.

I work for an SO over on the west coast and we arnt even getting our cost of living increase this year. I think we are all hurting givin the state of the economy and the recent tax cuts.

$1,400 every two weeks just ain't cuttin it. I hope the next contract will revise these pay scales? I hate living pay check to pay check.

I don't work for PBSO but $700 a week doesn't seem right at all. That would be less than $37,000 per year, which is less than FHP pays. Is 700 per week actually the salary for new hires??

after taxes it might be possible, sounds right to me.

after taxes it might be possible, sounds right to me.

You are 100% wrong. Starting pay is 44,928. Two pay checks per month means 24 pay checks. 42,928 / 24 = 1872 per pay period before taxes. So with taxes 1,600 a month. Stop posting wrong information.

http://www.pbcpba.org/PDF/PBSO%20Law%20 ... 6-2009.pdf (http://www.pbcpba.org/PDF/PBSO%20Law%20Enforcement%202006-2009.pdf)

That's nice ... I've been here almost six years and make only $4K more annually than those starting (assuming the above post is correct). That's like only $75 more per week ... great.

$1,400 every two weeks just ain't cuttin it. I hope the next contract will revise these pay scales? I hate living pay check to pay check.

I don't work for PBSO but $700 a week doesn't seem right at all. That would be less than $37,000 per year, which is less than FHP pays. Is 700 per week actually the salary for new hires??

That's after taxes, we don't pay that low. Even for new hires.

You are in a civil service job bro, if you got in this profession to make money, you were misguided. Be glad you have a job right now because the forecast is for rough economic times ahead.

Don't forget some deputies are putting money in Deferred Comp and other insurances . If so, this would decrease the take home amount.

$1,400 every two weeks just ain't cuttin it. I hope the next contract will revise these pay scales? I hate living pay check to pay check.

You are so right, if I were you I would quit immediately and go out there and make your fortune at Publix bagging groceries.

There are 26 paychecks in a year. Some months have three checks.

We get paid on the 15th and 30th of the month, not bi-weekly. The last time I checked, each month only has one 15th day and one 30th day with the exception of February. As such, we are paid 24 times per year. Check your facts!!!

[pbso]

You are forgetting the month of Augvember which has 3 paydays

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There are 26 paychecks in a year. Some months have three checks.

FALSE. There are 24.

[Member of the Green Gang]

People need to get the information correct.

First of all posting this in PBSO field says it is a PBSO employee but I don't see that salary applying to any full time working deputy unless you are straight from the academy with absolutely no experience. Nor does the one saying he only makes $75 more a week after six years know their math.

At the moment the lowest paid deputy is $44,928 yearly, that is a deputy straight from the academy with no prior experience.

A deputy at six years with the same conditions as above is $56,040 or $213.69 a week more.

Lets not forget to add in their the cost of gasoline you would be paying at $4 plus a gallon as opposed to the $50 a month. Nor about the low family insurance when other officers in PDs are paying close to $500. Oh and lets not forget about not having another car payment when you can use a patrol car (I use it without my family in it).

You like your toys: Work more details since they aren't a necessity
You have child support: Work more details, they are your responsibility.

Get on a budget and stay on it. If you are straight from the academy with no experience and your take home is $1,400 every payday you like everyone else has to earn it. If you didn't like the starting salary you didn't have to take the job. Go find and get hired by someone else who had the potential to give you what PBSO does with the 3% retirement the state gives you without you paying anything into it.

In other words this is the worst post I have ever read for someone complaining.

By the way, PBSO is not civil service.

There are 26 paychecks in a year. Some months have three checks.

FALSE. There are 24.

My mistake. I thought you guys were on a bi-weekly pay schedule. If you are paid on set dates you are in fact correct only 24 pay periods in a year.

For other agencies which are still on a bi-weekly pay schedule there are 26 pay periods in the 2008 year as, May and October have three pay periods each.

I stand corrected.

There are 26 paychecks in a year. Some months have three checks.

FALSE. There are 24.

My mistake. I thought you guys were on a bi-weekly pay schedule. If you are paid on set dates you are in fact correct only 24 pay periods in a year.

For other agencies which are still on a bi-weekly pay schedule there are 26 pay periods in the 2008 year as, May and October have three pay periods each.

I stand corrected.

You obviously don't wrok for our department, why are you putting in your $.02 about our salary?

Yeah, and Human Resources people are being issued new cars too...What a joke. They get called out once every five years and they have tried to justify the take home for that reason. Lets see:
The car costs the tax payer $10,000 to $12,000
Maintenance anually for four or five trips to the motor pool $2,000
The meger gas allowance doesn't cover the cost of fuel another $7,000 a year

Almost a $20,000 investment so a civilian manager can drive to the sheriff's office and back home and WHAT DO THE CITIZENS GET IN RETURN?

If the true number of civilian take home cars was published and the amount of tax payers money being wasted for civilians take homes was known, the public would freak the heck out!

What a waste. Here you go Media peeps, a story that has teeth. Take it and run.