NYPD losing sergeants in droves who say theyre paid less than subordinates

The NYPD is losing sergeants in droves as New York City leaders scale back the allure of achieving the rank for police officers, who can make more in annual salary due to a system that allows experienced members of the rank-and-file to make more than freshly promoted supervisors.Under an expired contract, pay for sergeants starts at $98,000 and is capped at $118,000 after roughly five years, according to the NYPD’s Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA).Patrol officers top out at $115,000 – meaning hundreds of sergeants make less than thousands of rank-and-file cops who have reached top pay for their position.“We’re going to have guys potentially in the next year, year and a half that will be making upwards of anywhere between 9 to $15,000 less than a police officer,” said Vincent Vallelong, the president of the SBA.

“So you’re going to take a rank with more responsibility, you took a test, three tests, and at the end of the day, you’re losing money.”Over the course of a career, a sergeant could lose out on $80,000 to $100,000 in earnings, he said. Rather than creating a step program to incrementally increase sergeants’ pay, city taxpayers could be on the hook for an estimated $170 million if sergeants are promoted to top pay to outpace their subordinates, according to the SBA. “It doesn’t seem like anyone’s priorities are in the right place, because back in the ’90s, when the city needed to be turned around and we corrected crime, it was the NYPD that did it,” Vallelong told Fox News Digital.For comparison, the city reached a $220 million deal with the Roosevelt Hotel, owned by the government of Pakistan, to house illegal immigrants.“They’re bleeding money, the city, in all the wrong places,” Vallelong said.“Somebody in city governance either needs to go, or they really need to sit down and think this through and go back to basics.

… Go back to basic math.Go back to basic economics.”There are about 4,300 sergeants ...