Reader feedback
A view from the salary front line
I read “How’s Your Pay?” [February/March 2012] with much interest. I have been the Warehouse Manager for the largest “stores” operation for the City of Philadelphia for 16 years and my base salary is only $43,000 a year.
For the City of Philadelphia, regardless of how large or small a department is, regardless of the value of the inventory, regardless of the amount of work, we all make the same (with the exception of the automotive personnel, which is one pay grade higher because they have been declared a specialty for some reason or another.). I can make the same salary operating this huge operation as I can handing out pencils and paper from a broom closet.
I would have loved to have been part of this survey.
— Bob Deck,
Manager, Philadelphia Fire Department Whse.
Editor’s Note: Additional details on how the survey was conducted, and complete survey results, are available at nigp.org. Reported salary numbers did not include benefits or pensions.
