Joe:
I sent you the article of what OC officials are currently collecting in salaries;
1. Dennis Dare - $184,000
2. (4) Police captains - $123,000
3. (4) Fire Marshalls - $115,000
I knew the system has been out-of-control for over a decade and have advised for everyone to stay clear of the place in doing business with these entities.
Just as in Colquitt County California - the residents of OC should be outraged. These officials should be rounded-up immediately and incarcerated.
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23 comments:
Wow. I am in the wrong line of work. Why did I go to law school?
Right off, an inacuracy shows lack of credibilty. There are only two "fire Marshals" making that kind of money, and they are 20-30 year employees. The City Manager is responsible for every department in the town, and a 78 million dollar (tearly) BUSINESS. Show me anywhere in the private sector he's not UNDER Paid. Oh, and 10:40, to learn to lie.
Listen up, Ocean City will be hiring more firefighters next month, watch every cry baby from salisbury apply, and get hired.
71% of the police and fireman make almost $100,000 ! And the fire get to sleep 25% of thier shift. And they are still wanting more. When the rest of us get a union, maybe Dennis will treat us more fair.
Can't do that 8 out of the nine have guns. The fire marshall's are police officers. Heck the starting salary for a firefighter in OC is over $60,000 with a 48 hour shift that they get to sleep 8
I am just waiting for OC to post the jobs, see ya Hoppes and Mayor Liarton! I know I have job, guess who?
Now I see why the OC Police dept has such a reputation across the state and up and down the East Coast for writing tickets for everything from jaywalking and noise violations to 42 in a 40 zone and "obstruction of justice" (who's JUSTICE??? LOL! I think I know now) and "disturbing the peace"....and the thousands & thousands of parking tickets. And I can see why the judges in that town also have the reputation they have for rubberstamping everything the police do, regardless. Welcome to Ocean City. Here's your ticket(s), and I ain't talkin' 'bout no Trimper ride coupons, either.
You must be kidding, OC finally going to hire again. I applied 5 years ago, been working under the WORST bunch of losers the great Lord ever made, the SFD. SEE YA!
Fire Marshal is spelled with one L not LL. Also all traffic tickets got to the general fund for the State. The money from traffic tickets do no go directly back to the department that wrote it. 115,000 is more then what the Maryland State Fire Marshal makes.
No wonder the Worcester county sheriff's office doesn't have enough officers on the road..they make much less than ocpd and cover more area and take care of more duties than ocpd...not knocking ocpd they do a good job..but its time the citizens get the protection they need..look at wocomico..we need to stay one step ahead now!!!!!!!
yep, there's your answer, hire 30 more cops for 3,000,000 and Salisbury will be forever safer.
The residents are outraged, and can't wait for the next election
Fire marshals are not firefighters....so in that case what do the FIREFIGHTERS make, let's get facts straight
these are totally RIDICULOUS salaries compared to the cost of living and average pay in this area!!!!
As stated previously the numbers for those positions are not accurate. I don't know about the police captains but there definitely aren't 4 fire marshal's making 115K a year. If they are supposed to be then you might want to tell them.
Also, I'm tired of people crying about unemployment and other people's salaries. If you don't like you're job/salary then train for a new job wwith a better salary. It's not very hard to get a job as an EMT for the town of Ocean City. Join a volunteer fire company, volunteer some of your time (I know that's a strange concept for many of you, volunteering means you don't get paid to do it), have the fire company pay for your training and in less than a year you too could be an EMT. With overtime you could be making 50K a year.
Ocean city has a higher sales tax and high hotel taxes and other sources of revenue to fund it's municipal services. And dont forget 300,000 people per weekend go there in the summer that is 10 salisburys. Everyone in Salisbury wants more police but they would never approve higher taxes to fund them.
Rob S
The State of Maryland has figured the average household income for Wicomico County is $47,000. These salaries are way out of line. People should be outraged.
This is absolutely beyond a shawdow of a doubt a black eye for the easternshore.
What a crime - misappropriation of taxpayers money. They should be tied by a tribunal - taxpayers.
This will have ramifications.
This is really hard to stomach.
I work so hard for far far less. Some of these jobs the people only work a few hours each day.
Something is definately wrong with this picture.
People,
You can not compare OC salaries to any other municipality around here. No where else do they deal with a 4 month marathon of MD's second largest city -- where problems need to be solved yesterday.
There truly are no nearby comparables. These people choose to work here because they enjoy and know the challenge. They also know they won't have families or lives all summer.
This was an irresponsible post, factually deficient and obviously intended to incite the ignorant masses. Many of the attached comments are no better.
The number of Fire Marshals posted is double the true number making that salary. Fire Marshals do not work 24 hours shifts, and they do not get paid to sleep. Why is there no mention of the number of hours these people work in any given week? Let's add to this an examination of the scope of their duties & responsibilities, the degree of stress they experience, etc. I suppose these truths really wouldn't play into the author's hype.
Before someone says there isn't any more stress in public safety work than any other job: Why does the Heart and Lung Act recognize that Firefighters and Police have disproportionately higher incidents of work related hypertension and stress induced ailments than any other profession?
These men and women give more of themselves to the Ocean City community than people will ever know. Ocean City is a pretty darn nice town and the City's employees have everything to do with that. I wonder how many people would come to Ocean City if it looked like Salisbury. If you want to find out just cut the employees pay, under staff the departments, reduce the number of cops down to a level that makes it unsafe for the community and police alike, and go ahead and run all of them down in the media and local blogs for good measure. This would be quite the social experiment. I suppose the custom of vacationing fathers could then be to dig in above the high-tide line in order to store their families in foxholes, all while the warring street gangs perform their weekly ritual of drive-by shootings over bad drug deals. If any of you people want your community to become the next Salisbury just treat your employees like Salisbury does. Don't think it can't happen.
Blah, Blah, Blah, 12:09. The answer is if you cant earn that kind of money in the private sector, you shouldn't be earning in the public sector. We haven't even started talking about the pension plans yet....
So let's attack the employees who are told what they will make. Aren't OC's salaries negotiated through a bargaining process? And yes, you can make that kind of money in the private sector. More than half of the people living down Nanticoke Road are in this range.
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