A recent spout noted that the Wildwood police chief's salary is

North Wildwood - A recent spout noted that the Wildwood police chief's salary is either $130,000 or $142,000. OK, so let's take an average of $136,000. Now let's add the Crest chief's salary and North Wildwood at the same average to "guestimate" a total of over $400,000 in chief salaries alone, not including West Wildwood, for a five-mile island of approximately 3,800 winter residents. My chief's salary of $186,000 in central New Jersey covers 25-square miles and 28,000 full-time residents. We need to consolidate at least police and fire to reduce property taxes and forget about trivial stuff like name changes and "connected" family hiring.