The new deal is retroactive to Aug. 1, 2006. It runs to July 31, 2010.
Maximum pay goes from about $65,500 to $76,000.
That increase, a little more than four percent a year, is in line with what other uniformed unions have recently accepted.
But more importantly, the starting salary in the fourth year of the deal is expected to exceed $40,000.
The new contract comes on the heels of a recent ruling by a state arbitration panel that raised the starting salaries for rookies from $25,100 to $35,881.
The $25,100 starting salary was roundly derided as contributing to the department's decreasing enrollment.
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