Thanks for all the interesting comments everyone The Bay Area truly is the promised land

@HaydnBelfield @tylercowen Isn’t the number on the left smaller?

@HaydnBelfield One is a much more demanding job. Courage in the face of personal danger, making rules workable in complex unpredictable environments, and most importantly the people skills for dealing with very difficult persons including sometimes the mentally ill.

@HaydnBelfield I will gladly stay on my 60k and away from the "vibrant multicultural people who invented everything"

@HaydnBelfield So for somebody who’s competent, but not rich it doesn’t make financial sense to become a PM in the UK since they will be better off working for a commercial company.

@HaydnBelfield I know you're just engagement farming but for anyone actually interested, $202,000 converted to gdp ppp and adjusted for cost of living is £97,000. The highest rate of pay in the met is £111,000

@HaydnBelfield We await our arrival, could be many years yet.

@HaydnBelfield If they want to spend that money in the US, the top end of the range is a still enormous seeming £130k or so.

@HaydnBelfield @gh0st87

@HaydnBelfield And yet.

@HaydnBelfield @tylercowen Pretty sure that cops in the US aren't provided free mansions to live in

@HaydnBelfield That's also as much as a member of Congress or (nearly) senator makes so...

@HaydnBelfield £165k in London is about the same as $240k in San Francisco, according to Numbeo. It’s close though

@HaydnBelfield Is £160k>£164k?

@HaydnBelfield @tylercowen What is the average retired PM’s wealth versus BART officer?

@HaydnBelfield Bad math

@HaydnBelfield @AlecStapp They also clock mad overtime.

@HaydnBelfield @AlecStapp the UK PM is overpaid

@HaydnBelfield @tylercowen The BART drivers are more careful & like mass transit more than your PM, too.

@HaydnBelfield It all goes on rent though