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Cops' contract to pay $108G for 6 years on job
Quick ReadSuffolk County police officers with six years on the job will make $108,608 annually - the first time a contract puts the pay into six figures for that level of experience.
Photo credit: Newsday File / Alan Raia | A new class of Suffolk police officers graduate. (March 16 2007)
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Suffolk County police officers with six years on the job will make $108,608 annually - the first time a contract puts their pay into six figures - under a new arbitration award that leapfrogs them ahead of Nassau's top salaried cops.
The $18.52-million pay and benefit package gives the police union 3.5 percent in yearly pay hikes from 2008 to 2010, and lowers starting pay for newly hired...
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