11-22-2018, 01:33 PM
(11-22-2018, 01:01 PM)Ace Wrote:(11-22-2018, 10:29 AM)gomesjustin Wrote: "Some fire departments have 24 hour shifts. You literally get paid while sleeping, eating and shitting. Work 7 days straight and have the next 3 weeks off."
They put their lives on the line. So I think thats pretty reasonable.
I remember seeing statistics that a waste collector is multiple times more likely to be fatally injured on the job than a firefighter. Unable to dig up a data source right now so take it as you will.
Do you consider them putting their lives on the line? Should they be compensated accordingly?
These are US statistics, but I think they are still indicative. Firefighters and police don't make it into the top ten. (Ignoring volunteer firefighters, there are about 350,000 firefighters in the US, and 35 deaths in 2016, so that's a rate of about 10, far lower than the top occupations.)