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Enough with the strawmen arguments. There werent any attacks or myths being spread here and you are being overly defensive. This isnt about comparing firefighters with realtors, mortgage brokers or flippers. Its about comparing their wages with everyday working people.
If you want an extreme, how about comparing them with Primary Care Physicians who make similar money, put in similar hours and dont get all those benfits. let us not forget that they also invest over 6 figures into education and over 10 years into training (college, med school and residencies)with little or no compensation or benefits?
As for comparing other cities to SD, I’d would suggest cities like Pittsburgh, baltimore, indianapolis, Cleveland, Kansas City, St Louis, Milwakee and places like that. Cities large enough to support pro sports franchises but not major metro areas.
No one made comments about firemen sitting in recliners. I asked how much time is spent doing station duty? I know that involves maintaining equipment, training, doing dispatch work, teaching etc. Its work and we get that. It just isnt high risk dangerous work.
I also asked what percentage of fireman put in the substantial overtime you pointed out which brings their earning far above their base salaries? These ar ehonest questions and I’m not bashing fireman, I just think they are way overpaid.
No one is spreading myths or misinformation here, we asked honest questions and you have chosen not to answer the questions resorting to strawman arguments. Thats all it is.
If you want to talk about myths being spread how about your statement that real estate people often make more money than public sector folks doing less work. The stats just dont bear fruit on that. Over 80% of the folks in this business make less than $35K per year as self employed workers with no benefits. With few exceptions, the small percentage of people making real money in this business work very very hard.
