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Saturday, January 4, 2014

Police and Fire Pay, Nampa, Caldwell, Boise


We got this information from a Nampa Guardian Reader and thought it worth sharing with you.  The information comes from "ACCOUNTABLE IDAHO"

Average police pay:
Nampa 2012......  $65,585    Caldwell..... $48,744       Boise..... $72,295
Nampa 2011......  $66,446
Nampa 2010......  $66,562




Nampa Sgt. Tim Randall whose retirement is announced in today's IPT:
2011.... $89,566   2012....  $88.339

Fire Dept. average pay:
Nampa 2012... $71,640   Caldwell.... $66,890   Boise.... $81,845

All of the above  have added benefits which in Nampa's case includes over $12,000 in health insurance, PERSI retirement and a smorgasbord of other fringe benefits.

Update, January 7, 2013:  A commenter wanted to know Sheriff Dept. avg pay and here it is:

Paul:
Average pay for Ada County Sheriff officers  2012  $50,612
Average pay for Canyon County Sheriff officers 2012  $42,451
I have no way of knowing if any of the info I have sent you include
desk people but I would assume it does. Information taken from Accountable Idaho website. 




16 comments:

  1. Thanks Paul

    A little sunshine sometimes can be used as a disinfectant.

    Nampa also has more police officers / thousand population than either Meridian or Caldwell--Nothing like doubling down

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  2. Thank you for this useful information.

    Please expand it!

    There is a smelly problem in the Nampa PD!!!

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  3. Sgt. Tim Randall was the Officer who was in the middle of the early morning car chase that left 4 Nampa police cars wrecked, citizen's property damaged and parked cars(s) damaged. He authorized the high speed pursuit of a DUI suspect. All this damage and the risk to people in the area made no sense when they could have followed this guy to his home and arrested him in his driveway. THE GUARDIAN filed a public records request on this event and it was met with the BLUE WALL OF SILENCE by the Nampa Police, Canyon Sheriff, and ISP. Records of this have been swept under the rug of silence.

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    1. Mayor Henry is making some staff changes. Maybe he will look into the upper echelons of NPD staff and make some changes there.

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  4. More corruption, stonewalling, deflection, whitewashing.....

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  5. We will have a new mayor and most of the city council tomorrow night . Hopefully some of these things will start to change.

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  6. How much do the sheriff's make? You left them out.

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    1. The deputies start out at about $36,650.00 per year if I am reading the jobposting s correctly.

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  7. The Canyon county sheriffs dept. gives each deputy their own patrol car. These vehicles sit unused when the deputy is not on duty. I know of one patrol vehicle that sat for 2 weeks last year while the deputy was on vacation I t may make sense to do so with a resident deputy out in the far reaches of the county but those that operate out of the Caldwell office should be sharing vehicles. I would guess we could reduce the number of vehicles we have to buy and maintain by at least 1/3 if we did this and still provide the necessary service

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    1. and you would still wear the cars out twice as fast by hot seating them and would still go through the same number or more of cars in the same time period. You would not save a dime. I know because they tried it before. Think about it, Suppose you run a car to 120,000 miles before taking it out of service and replacing it. Suppose a deputy drives 30,000 miles a year. If two deputies tag team that car it will be worn out in 2 years. If one deputy drives it, it will get replaced in 4 years. So what have you accomplished? Nothing.

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  8. Hopefully, Nampa's new mayor and city council will get out the books and sharpen the pencils and help Nampa's middle-class recover from the disastrous era of Team Tom Dale.

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  9. you should also compare administrative positions in the cities such as mayor, finance and see how they differ. These comparisons are only on emergency personnel compare everyone position and I think you will find its the same across the board

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  10. Government employment is a great deal for workers. Despite what they claim about making less, the reality is most jobs pay very well. You don't see a lot of turnover and their retirement benefits are defined via PERSI and they can still contribute to a "457" deferred compensation plan with pre-tax dollars. Elected officials all make a very nice income as well.

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    1. Cities have to watch out on getting into debt. If a city gets into debt and files bankruptcy, the first thing they will go after are the former city workers pensions. I think that Mayor Henry will get Nampa away from that pathway to debt. I am glad he is in there now.

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    2. Turnover may not be a problem at the city, but at the county it's the nature of the beast. It's a continuous process of recruitment and training to fill the holes. As you can imagine this costs us all a fortune for the sheriff to have such an unstable work force. Just imagine if he could keep jailers for longer than two years and actually recapture some of that investment.

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