Originally Posted by Scout308
In the FRS, the Florida retirement system, you can retire in the special risk class with twenty five years of service regardless of age if you were hired before 7/1/2011. At 25 years you get 75% of your salary based on your highest five years of service. You can pad your retirement with overtime. Peterson was making more than fifty thousand a year base salary. The County I retired from a topped out Deputy along with longevity makes about 77k a year. Most South Florida agencies pay well!



Yep. 3% a year for high risk @33 years is 99%. I wish I had started a high risk job not long out of high school. I'm in FRS @1.6% a year. At 33 years, I'll be getting 52.8% of not a whole lot. Though it is better than relying on just SS and investments.

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