Posted on 08/27/2017 6:35:52 AM PDT by george76
Thirty-six city workers topped Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s $216,210 salary. Most of them worked for the police department (23 employees) or the fire department (12).
More than one of every three Chicago city workers made $100,000 or more last year — including 36 who topped Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s $216,210 salary, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis has found.
The number of city workers making more than Emanuel was up from 26 in a similar review by the Sun-Times in 2015. And the percentage of city employees topping the $100,000 mark is up slightly since then.
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among the highest-paid was Donald Koplitz, a retired police sergeant who cashed in on accumulated comp time for a payout of more than a quarter of a million dollars — three years after he left the Chicago Police Department.
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Of the 25,158 people working for Cook County last year, 2,918 made $100,000 or more — 11.6 percent of the total staff. They made a total of $413.5 million — or 26 percent of the county’s $1.5 billion payroll.
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The average city worker’s total payout — salary, overtime and other pay — came to $87,090.50.
• The average Chicago Police Department employee made $99,811.59.
• The average pay among Chicago Fire Department employees was $117,286.71.
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Ginger Evans saw her $300,000 pay get a 33 percent boost thanks to a $100,000 bonus for meeting goals for “expanding capacity, modernizing operations and improving infrastructure” at O’Hare Airport and Midway Airport. Evans’ agency made unwanted international news earlier this year when her employees violently dragged Dr. David Dao — a ticketed passenger who already had boarded — off a United Airlines flight to make room for airline employees.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
Everybody who works for the city or the state or the school system in Chicago and earns over $100,000 in their last three years is a multi millionaire. They receive an annuity worth over $2 million dollars when they retire, often in their 50s. And they don’t have to pay state taxes on that annuity either. And of course they can go get another job.
Chicago, Chicago, that toddiln’ town. Chicago, Chicago, I’ll show you around. For a price that is....Boy am I glad I left 25 years ago!
You would have to be a moron to live and pay taxes in Chicago
Isn’t that the town Obama came from?
This is happening in NJ as well; many people who can get out of their mortgages/sell their homes (especially young ones, who never bought) are leaving, because the companies here left rather than be morons and the tax burden was shifted to homeowners. The only homes selling seem to be multi-families, and many of those are then renovated to add illegal apartments or rent individual rooms.
If the voters in Chicago are so stupid as to give these huge salaries and benefits to city workers, then the Chicago voters cannot complain when their taxes and fees keep going up, up, up.
As much as I oppose these salaries being paid to city workers on the backs of taxpayers, we have to remember that a big part of what happened is that private sector wages for non-executive level workers have plummeted dramatically since the end of the Cold War. Government workers’ salaries have kept up with the rate of inflation and cost of living increases. These salaries for Chicago city workers reflect what average middle class people earned a generation ago played forward.
We have read about how meat processing workers made as much a $90,000 a year in today’s money as recently as the early 1980’s. We have to face the fact the America is a radically less prosperous society today. Those of us who travel frequently know that the US standard of living is no longer so high above the rest of the world.
Cook county expected.
There are more Government beauroCrazies ( 22 million ) than we have manufacturing jobs ( 12 million ) in the US. ..
For half a century—from January 1939 through July 1989—manufacturing employment always exceeded government employment in the United States.
Dead are voting early and often; plus all the illegal aliens / foreign nationals voting.
WE ARE THE FOOLS, NOT THEM...
“WE ARE THE FOOLS, NOT THEM...”
That’s true, but it is changing as the productive non-government workers retire and leave places like Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Etc., these cities will find it ever increasingly difficult to support their overpaid, lazy public workforce. Here in California we have had several major cities go through bankruptcy, magically not touching PE retirement benefits. Frankly, I suspect they have some smoke and mirrors they used to exit their bankruptcies, and I am betting that they will be back in bankruptcy again soon. And in the case of the City of Stockton, they Federal Bankruptcy Court ruled the city could give PE pensions a haircut, but they didn’t do it.So you know they didn’t really fix the problem. The end of PE pay and benefits as they are today is coming, because ordinary citizens are not going to keep paying them.
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