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Originally Posted by Mrs. Robinson
I understand (have been told) that the Sumter firefighters are underpaid but have no idea what their salary range is.
It would be helpful to know this.
Perhaps those who might be opposed to giving them a raise is from previous knowledge of firefighters' salaries in the area where they lived prior to moving to TV???
I don't really know; I'm just playing devil's advocate.
I can cite one example where the masses were upset with the firefighters union.
The firefighters could retire after 20 years.
So possibly at 40 years old, they could get another job (no problem with that),
but at retirement age, they would collect about $80,000 a year from their pension.
There was a special tax every year which residents had to pay for that purpose (the pension).
There were many people who were very unhappy about this.
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My husband was a firefighter in a large city up north and in the union and I only wish he could have retired at 40 and had an 80,000 pension.