Didn’t really understand if the salary quote was about the same coop then the salary one, but in general of you want to work for public sector, education, NGOs etc one should anyway expect lower salaries compared to working for cooperations. So these should be the benchmark to compare and not all over market averages.

That’s something I never got about cops in the US. Everywhere in Europe, there are always two cops per car, at least in the places I have been.