Police pay
June 21st, 2012 at 12:00 pm by David FarrarThe Herald reports:
Frontline police staff will not have their pay cut in talks due to resume this week, but are facing a pay freeze because of a tight policing budget.
Police Commissioner Peter Marshall could not confirm yesterday whether sworn police officers would get a raise in pay negotiations which are being held with unions.
I do wish the full facts would be presented. The Police Commissioner can not just refuse a pay raise. He can make an offer, which the union can accept or reject. The union can make a claim, which the Commissioner can accept or reject. If they can not agree, their the final offer and claim go to a three person independent arbitration panel, which will decide to either accept the Commissioner’s offer in its totality or the union’s claim in its totality.
Police have predicted that a 3 per cent wage increase would cost $75 million a year and CSI increases would cost $42.5 million a year.
That’s a strange figure. If a 3% wage increase would cost $75 million a year, then that means the current wage bill is $2.5b a year. As their total operating costs are $1.48b a year, that figure must be wrong.
Also with 9,000 Police officers a claim that a 3% wage increase would cost $75m a year means each officer would get a pay rise of $8,300 or so. For that to be 3%, it means the average pay rate would be $275,000 a year approx.
June 21st, 2012 at 12:18 pm
I thought the fraud squad took a dim view of dishonesty ?
Vote:June 21st, 2012 at 1:56 pm
Perhaps they mean a real increase of 3%. If they’re using slightly old figures for annual inflation it still includes the GST increase putting it at close to 5%. A net 8% increase probably lines up with your figures more closely?
Still would be nice to have the real figures used…
Vote:June 21st, 2012 at 2:42 pm
If we assume the average pay for 9000 police is $65K then the total is $585Million. 3% is $17.5Million. Looks like someone cant add or multiply.
Mind you as an oldie who one of the last to be taught proper the standard of reading writing and arithmetic is pathetic.
And the biggest joke is teachers who cant teaching pupils who cant. Blind leading blind
Vote:June 21st, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Muphry’s law strikes.
Vote:June 21st, 2012 at 3:32 pm
and Corrections are shedding 130 staff at $76k saving for each.
Vote:June 21st, 2012 at 9:49 pm
$75m figure can make sense if it refers to the cost of a 3% increase PLUS the automatic “career service increment” based on time-served. If the CSI alone is $42m, then 3%=33m or so – which is right as their total wage bill is just over $1b, and means an average total rem of just under $90k, which is about right. Assumes it applies to all 12000 staff, not just the 9000 sworn officers.
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