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Originally Posted by CelticWarrior13
Don't neccesarily let entry level pay influence your decision. As you rise up the GS scale you make good, decent to really good money (a buddy of mine retired from one agency making very good pay and was handed his credentials in the other hand for another agency...making a substantial increase as basically a contract employee) Plus, depending on what agency you work for you get differentials (and what some would call overtime...but it's paid in lieu of OT as they presume the hours will be worked...and if you work over, oh well!)
I will say that the retirement from what I understand has gone downhill...sadly.
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I suspect I was overly broad in my statement. Geographic location probably affects this. In Seattle, even with the differential (and the assumption that one would rise in the ranks), the compensation is poor compared to SPD or any of the Eastside agencies. On the other hand, I suspect compensation in the midwest, south or anywhere else that the cost of living is less might be quite good in comparison.