A fair determination? Here are the teacher pension highlights:
work 26 years never getting a promotion. And no fear of being fired after year 4.
Retire with thirty years credit. Get 3% raises in retirement every year. Get full health benefits. retire at 55. And pay no state taxes on pension. Average 55 year old teacher salary is $100,000 in Illinois. Pensions are 75% of last three years pay. Extra paying jobs like department heads and coaching go to teachers about to retire.
In many school systems like mine. A teacher can get 25% raise over last three years if they agree to retire. In other words, the schools want them out. There are hundreds of young teachers hungry for each available job. This may not make sense at first glance. But it does, because the state pays the pensions and the local boards of educations pay the salaries.
Overpaid and benefitted, for a couple of elections they had a good billion for Democrats to raise their power, pay and benefits.
No unions in government attached employment.