A Tentative Pay Raise for Police Sergeants

Police sergeants would earn more than $103,000 a year — a wage increase of almost 25% — under a tentative contract agreement between the New York City Police Department and a police union, Sergeants' Benevolent Association, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday.

"The place in the city where we have always thought underpaid was at the middle level — sergeants, lieutenants," Mr. Bloomberg said at a press conference.

The pay raise would encourage sergeants to stay in the police force, he said. The city's contract with the union is in binding arbitration after a dispute over pay.