These cops don’t need an Ivy League degree
Imagine the consternation of those long deluded parents, the ones who spent years, K through 12, cajoling and threatening and begging their progeny into taking what The Miami Herald haschina jewelry wholesale now definitively shown to be the wrong career path.
Over the years, they ponied up private school tuition, hired tutors, paid for SAT test prep and underwrote the extracurricular activities that catch the eyecheap wholesale jewelry of a registrar at a fancy Ivy League college. All for the privilege of paying 55 grand a year to send their kids to Harvard, Princeton or Yale.
Then they pick up the newspaper and discover what they should have done to insure their nestlings’ financial future: frog-march the kids down to the Miami Beach Police Department, or some other South Florida public safety outfit, and demand an employment application.
A Princeton degree, according to PayScale’s compilation ofjewelry shop colleges whose grads enjoy the highest mid-career salaries, has an average return of about $130,000 a year. Harvard, at mid-career, is good for about $116,000. Dartmouth, about $114,000. Columbia, figure on $99,700. All better than the national medium income for bachelor degrees of $48,000.
Then The Herald’s David Smiley and Daniel Chang, reporting on South Florida public pensions extravagances, inadvertently crushed the Ivy League myth. At aboutjewelry stores the same age Harvard grads hit their mid-career stride, South Florida cops and fire fighters were retiring with pensions comparable to Harvard and Princeton salaries.
