If you want to do a bootcamp solely to make $130K a year and change your life, become a police officer in San Francisco instead - hundreds made over $300K last year (see source). You only need a GED!

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u/EntrepreneurHuge5008 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Okay, but like, how many more hours of OT are we talking about to hit that $300k mark? what rank and how many years to get there? more importantly, how likely is your average joe to make it there?

u/michaelnovati replied · Jun 29, 2024

Base salary ranges from about $100K for L1 to $147K for L3 and you get there through gradual raises over 7 years. A huge chunk is overtime yeah. I don't know why so many thousands of people have overtime, there are 2,140 officers in SF and over half of them make $200K all-in. Benefits and pensions are big factors too. But yeah, not an easy job, and lots of hours (maybe same as tech?) but a GED and no further schooling required other than SFPD bootcamp 😉