[quote]Jackie was a police officer for a short time. Most police officers are given the option to retire after 20 years of service with a pension equivalent to 50% or more of their salary. That being said, 50% of a police offer's salary isn't that much. Living on a police pension isn't a guarantee of wealth.

Who said anything about wealth, how about these people are still not struggling, like every character on this series is depicted? Even Darlene's BF lost his business? C'mon!

Not sure where you live, NYPD retired cops and FDNY firemen get excellent pensions. A friend's husband, a retired fire captain, or chief, gets a $145,000 a year tax free pension. Not bad at all. A retired cop I know, a woman from my neighborhood, must receive a very decent pension. Every time I bump into her, she's always showing me photos from her latest trip, not now during Covid, but she was always traveling. This woman is single, she has a co-op mortgage. She must be getting a a very decent pension. The average NYPD pension amount is $80,000.

Most NY city and state union jobs pensions are based on their last few years of working, that's when workers make sure to put in many extra hours of overtime. I'd hardly call any of these people poor or working class.

My point was not about Jackie acquiring wealth via a big pension, my point was, she could have retired in 20 years, collected a pension and taken another job. Instead, after all these years, pretty much everyone in this series, is still at the bottom of the economic ladder. They are always complaining about how poor they are. It's ridiculous and tedious. Being poor isn't funny.

Dan still being poor is the most shocking aspect of this series. Dan has many skills. IIRC, he had a home repair business and actually had a small staff, he also had a decent union job and he was also a mechanic. Dan has marketable skills, it's not as if he's been a cashier his entire working life. Again, this show is absolutely ridiculous. I won't even get into his home still not being paid for.

Re firefighters: "After five years, a Firefighter can make more than $100,000, including overtime and holiday pay."

As of 2019: "The 471 Fire Department of New York (FDNY) officers and firefighters who retired in calendar year 2018 are eligible for average pensions of $129,259, according to data posted today at SeeThroughNY.net, the Empire Center's transparency website."