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You get much better pay and a 20 year retirement so I don't feel sorry for you.
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Be happy you get anything.
Us Feds get nothing. If you are uniformed LEO, you get it issued, or get an annual spending account to buy them. But not uniformed, you get jack...
You get much better pay and a 20 year retirement so I don't feel sorry for you.
Its only 20 if you are over 50 years old, otherwise its 25. And thats 39% at 25 years or 34% at 20 years. And your pension is based off your salary only, no OT, no night diff, no holiday pay etc. its 39% or 34% of your salary. No way to bump it up in your last few years by working extra OT or anything like that. you get 1% per year extra if you stay past 20 years. So while an NYPD officer can do a life long career and walk out with 80-90% of their highest 3 (with OT, holiday, night diff, sunday pay, hazard pay, special duty pay etc), a fed who got hired at 21yo will walk out with 50% of his base after 36 years. Not exactly "much better" is it?
And "much better" pay??? Maybe in some rural areas in the country, but in the major metro areas the state and local LE have passed us years ago. Several years of no cost of living increase followed by 1% for a few more and our salary is lower than 90% of the large city PD's. PD's around here get a crappy 5 year contract with 2, 2, 3, 3 and 4%....
Compare apples to apples, a Fed Special Agent to a Detective, not a patrol officer. All of a sudden the media hyped "Feds are over paid" myth seems laughable... Look at what a 1st grade detective in NYPD or LAPD makes and compare that to a Special Agent at top pay in the FBI, DEA or ATF makes. Hmmm, all those city jobs pay way more.
Don't believe all the crap you hear. The Fed pension sucks, and unless you have another job lined up when you retire, I don't know anyone that can live off 39% of your current base salary for the decade it takes to collect social security. Oh did I forget to mention we are forced to retire at 57, so even if you wanted to keep working till soc sec age, you cant...
Don't believe everything you read, its not all grass on the other side, some of its just green painted concrete.