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Life is hard. Take the Suffolk pd exam in June. They are gonna hire as many guys as Nassau pd has in for their current exam. Feds are also hard to get into... Probably Harder than Suffolk.
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Just to reiterate I am trying to compare tier 3 (not tier 2) to an 1811 pension. Thank you all for the great info!
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Thanks for the quick answer! I actually read through it but must have skipped that lol
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Originally posted by nyc9090 View PostLots of good info here ladies and gents. Another question relating to nypd tier 3..... I know at 25 years it's 50% plus te full escalation..... But every years after that do you get anything additional like the 1/60th to increase your pension percentage? Or is it a flat 50% no matter how many more years you do?
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Lots of good info here ladies and gents. Another question relating to nypd tier 3..... I know at 25 years it's 50% plus te full escalation..... But every years after that do you get anything additional like the 1/60th to increase your pension percentage? Or is it a flat 50% no matter how many more years you do?
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There are a lot of questions to be answered before deciding just based on pension comparsions
Can you buy back into tier 2. If you have enough miltary and other NYS pensionable prior job time/peace officer time, you can get into tier 2. I know a guy who did nyc ems for over ten years before going to the nypd. He is able to buy back into tier 2.
how old would you be when you get the time in. A tier 2 can retire in 20 years . A tier 3 can retire in 22.5 years and 25 years if he wants the escalation benefit. If you are 21, the few years of retirement might be worth it to you instead of waiting to 50. Not always recommended but possible. And possibly start a second career.
How many years do you plan working at that department: a tier 2 definitely has a higher pension if they work 25 than a fed with twenty five tears if they are equal rank in their hierarchy. just working those extra years can bring the tier 2 pension over more than 40% of what they would have had a twenty years.
Tier 2 and under thirty, the nypd pension is probably better if you can hustle the overtime and stay a little past your 20th year in a low inflation environment. Tier 3 is no question in my mind-- go federalLast edited by crj11472; 01-23-2015, 06:42 PM.
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Fed pensions and Social Security supplements are exempt from NYS income tax.
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Originally posted by crj11472 View PostNYPD captains make a lot more than 140,000 at the end of the day. The 140k is top base pay on the old contract. It does not include night diff, and holiday pay. A captain can and do make over 160, 000 to 170,000. This does not include the variable supplement when they retire which is 12,000 a year more when they retire. And if they are in rank more than 5 years they get a deputy inspector's pension. It does not include IHTP bump if they contribute. All this without the benefit of cash overtime-- they can only get comp time. Many build over a year in comp time and "run" their time at the end-- basically a paid vacation for that time.
Pension-wise. The NYPD teir 2 beats federal in the short term. A sergeant who hits the overtime cap makes more than 150, 000 a year. With the IHTP ( increased take home waiver) contributions which get a guaranteed rate of 8.25% interest a year, after twenty years, the annuity rate of the pension IHTP can be as high as 2000 dollars or more a month. After twenty years the mandatory contribution amount does not go up and all contributions go to that annuity of the surplus with adds more to the pension in addition to the 1/60 of very dollar earned after your 20th year. I know of a Lt who did 27 years who takes home about 9500 a month after taxes in his pension not including his variable supplement or his 457 plan. And he did not get a 3/4 disability pension. If he did he could have taken home more than 11000.
And when he hits 62, he can choose to get social security then like most workers in addition to his pension.
A detective squad sergeant with the SDS pay makes the same. A LT with SDS makes captain pay with cash O/T and can make over 200,000 a year. Sergeant in Narco and some other specialized units don't have a cap on O/T
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...icle-1.1958950
All the numbers cited are out of date because they have been out of contract for more than 3 years and retroactive raises occur with new contracts to the start of where the old contract ended.
Where the federal pension gets better than tier 2 is with COLA-- no worries about inflation. The so-called COLA that the NYPD has applies only to the first 18,000 is indexed at half the federal cola and has a max of 3%-- not much at all.
What NYPD/nys officers also get is that our pensions are NYS tax free when we collect them. We pay taxes on the contributions to our pensions while we are working. So our take home pay is often higher when we retire than when we working.
Take a look at some of our pensions-- the top guys are chiefs who stayed 40 years but this should give you an idea of the possibilities at tier 2
http://seethroughny.net/pensions/
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But to the argument, NYPD vs federal. Federal will give you a better work environment by far. And it is much better than tier 3
Tier 3 requires for a full pension 22.5 years. To get the full escalation ( a type of COLA with a 3% max) benefit, you would have to work until 25 years is completed. And when you hit age 62, your pension is reduced by half the calculated value of your social security benefit even if you elect to wait to receive those benefits. You do not get the 3/4 disability if you are crippled in the line of duty that the tier 2 officers get. There is a female tier three officer who was burned in a fire, if they force her out on disability, her benefit is less than welfare - literally.
There is no IHTP for tier 3 and no benefit to staying past twenty five years.
Most feds will tell you the benefits are much better on the local side, but it's not a massive difference. Again, I'm speaking from a Tier II perspective. In any case, pension alone won't do it where ever you end up retiring from. You need to be smart and plan accordingly throughout your career. TSP, Def. Comp, etc. is critical. As GoldBadge alluded to, the goal is to net the same or more than you made while working. This can be done @ NYPD or on the fed side but both will require proper planning to do so.
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You're better off working for a PD in Long Island, Westchester or Rockland where a PO makes 160K a year without killing themselves.
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NYPD captains make a lot more than 140,000 at the end of the day. The 140k is top base pay on the old contract. It does not include night diff, and holiday pay. A captain can and do make over 160, 000 to 170,000. This does not include the variable supplement when they retire which is 12,000 a year more when they retire. And if they are in rank more than 5 years they get a deputy inspector's pension. It does not include IHTP bump if they contribute. All this without the benefit of cash overtime-- they can only get comp time. Many build over a year in comp time and "run" their time at the end-- basically a paid vacation for that time.
Pension-wise. The NYPD teir 2 beats federal in the short term. A sergeant who hits the overtime cap makes more than 150, 000 a year. With the IHTP ( increased take home waiver) contributions which get a guaranteed rate of 8.25% interest a year, after twenty years, the annuity rate of the pension IHTP can be as high as 2000 dollars or more a month. After twenty years the mandatory contribution amount does not go up and all contributions go to that annuity of the surplus with adds more to the pension in addition to the 1/60 of very dollar earned after your 20th year. I know of a Lt who did 27 years who takes home about 9500 a month after taxes in his pension not including his variable supplement or his 457 plan. And he did not get a 3/4 disability pension. If he did he could have taken home more than 11000.
And when he hits 62, he can choose to get social security then like most workers in addition to his pension.
A detective squad sergeant with the SDS pay makes the same. A LT with SDS makes captain pay with cash O/T and can make over 200,000 a year. Sergeant in Narco and some other specialized units don't have a cap on O/T
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...icle-1.1958950
All the numbers cited are out of date because they have been out of contract for more than 3 years and retroactive raises occur with new contracts to the start of where the old contract ended.
Where the federal pension gets better than tier 2 is with COLA-- no worries about inflation. The so-called COLA that the NYPD has applies only to the first 18,000 is indexed at half the federal cola and has a max of 3%-- not much at all.
What NYPD/nys officers also get is that our pensions are NYS tax free when we collect them. We pay taxes on the contributions to our pensions while we are working. So our take home pay is often higher when we retire than when we working.
Take a look at some of our pensions-- the top guys are chiefs who stayed 40 years but this should give you an idea of the possibilities at tier 2
http://seethroughny.net/pensions/
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But to the argument, NYPD vs federal. Federal will give you a better work environment by far. And it is much better than tier 3
Tier 3 requires for a full pension 22.5 years. To get the full escalation ( a type of COLA with a 3% max) benefit, you would have to work until 25 years is completed. And when you hit age 62, your pension is reduced by half the calculated value of your social security benefit even if you elect to wait to receive those benefits. You do not get the 3/4 disability if you are crippled in the line of duty that the tier 2 officers get. There is a female tier three officer who was burned in a fire, if they force her out on disability, her benefit is less than welfare - literally.
There is no IHTP for tier 3 and no benefit to staying past twenty five years.
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A couple of things NYPD guys get that tend to get overlooked. Every NYPD cop get a certain amount of annuity money for each day worked. Each rank gets a different amount. That money is is held and managed by the union like a 401 account. Another thing is that the longevity money now ( as of the last contract) gets the percentage increase along with the contractual salary increases.
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