Village police find pay parity with county cops
Photo credit: Newsday, 2008 / Thomas A. Ferrara | Most offiers in Nassau and Suffolk pull in more than $100,000. (July 2008)
Lynbrook's 47 police officers brought home an average of some $150,000 last year, officials there say, by working extra hours. Amityville's police get about $125,000, the mayor said, thanks to a village policy giving them automatic parity with Suffolk police.
And in the tiny North Hempstead village of Kensington, officers earn a top salary of $115,362 - a figure Mayor Susan Lopatkin says is...
