Protective service

Over half (58%) of workers that activate in the protective service are fully eligible of getting a traditional pension plan. In fact, as Elizabeth Kennedy, associate professor of law and social responsibility at Loyola University in Maryland explained, police officers and firefighters are the most likely to have any kind of access to a traditionally defined benefit pension plan.

In fact, police officers and detectives alike earn an average of $67,290 per year, which is way more than the $52,500 median salary firefighters get.

Lots of protective service jobs have tough and rigorous physical qualifications that are required to perform this kind of job. The pension plans are provided to those former employees who might not be able to meet these physical requirements that are demanded by the job.