Unsurprisingly, the highest-paid members of the Memphis Police Department and Memphis Fire Department are the chiefs and deputy chiefs. Collectively, MPD and MFD top brass oversee more than half of the entire city workforce.
They also oversee two of the biggest salary budgets in the city, a byproduct of the sheer size of the workforce.
Including the biggest salaries — with MPD Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis at $246,30.28 and MFD Chief Colin Burress at $253,761.30 — MPD’s average salary is just over $74,700 annually and MFD averages just over $77,200…