Why would they get more AFTER retiring than they earned while working?
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“Why would they get more AFTER retiring than they earned while working?”
Well all I can tell you is that both of them were making $188,000 per year, and their first year retirement incomes were $100,000 more than that. Perhaps their Health and Welfare Benes were included in that number. I also know that our town’s first Chief of Police was making less than $80k when he retired. Since public pensions are a matter of public record, I looked his up the other day $160,000! You see they are “indexed” for “inflation” so they get “pay increases” every year. And back when the county was flush (before 2007), they gave all retirees a big pop with “extra” money they had that was burning a hole in their pockets. Also, FWIW, in our county, the only employees making more money than the fire fighters, are the doctors at the county hospital, all of whose names you can’t pronounce! Our County Administrator, DA, Tax Collector, etc. don’t make as much as the FFs.
Because they're union thug bureaucRATs, and it's only taxpayer money.