Posted on 12/11/2022 5:58:05 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
There are 132,188 public employees and retirees in Illinois who earned $100,000 or more last year.
Auditors at OpenTheBooks.com found almost 500 educators in Illinois public schools had salaries between $200,000 and $439,000. Small-towns city managers made up to $341,300, and three doctors at the University of Illinois at Chicago earned between $1 million and $2.1 million.
This is as crime increases, test scores drop among public school students, and inflation decimates private-sector paychecks. This doesn’t stop the Illinois public employee class from living the good life.
Well-paid barbers working for State Corrections trimmed off $104,000, janitors at the Chicago Transit Authority cleaned up with $143,634 paychecks, bus drivers in Chicago picked up $242,812 in pay, and suburban community college presidents made $418,677, we found from payroll data.
In 2021, 26,904 educators earned six-figure salaries, while 16,592 retirees pocketed $100,000 pensions. That’s as test scores dropped, with only 31 percent of students reading at grade level. There were 18 school superintendents who made $300,000, and another 18 retired school superintendents received $300,000 in retirement pensions…
And under the Illinois Constitution these obscene people levels can never be touched.
Until there’s no more money, anyway.
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It’s good to feed at the government trough.
I doubt that is sustainable.
New idea.
Pensioners only get the percentage of their pension that the current batch of kids reading at their grade level is.
So for example, this year they’d only get 31% of what they’d normally get. If they get $100,000 a year, they’d only be able to get $31,000.
#1 Accounting rule = Never maintain an expense.
“percentage of their pension”
What they did was use the highest pay for the last 3 years to include overtime and extras (e.g., combat zone pay for Iraq).
At the same time keeping military retirement against base pay minus allowances.
Union Dem paybacks.
Of course it isn’t sustainable. But it’s written into the iL Constitution nonetheless and it has been upheld by IL Supreme Court more than once. The only way out is Chapter 9 for municipalities. The State itself is totally screwed.
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If you work for government, then you are the enemy.
I do think I detect some envy here.
Sad to say but $100,000 per year in Illinois isn’t a lot of money.
They can’t be touched until Illinois can no longer barrow or tax more money. They have no money now. This is why I moved from Illinois. I did not want to support this grifting.
Same here, got out of Illinois ASA I quit the job there (which paid around $150k in today’s dollars) to play golf full time.
I hope they are in Florida spending it happily here. We have an awesome state where that revenue is welcome. Lol.
Why don’t they just raise taxes?
They do, and they are caught in the Catch-22 that comes from raising taxes, thus driving away higher income residents, making it necessary to raise taxes... rinse, repeat.
I could care less, except that administrations like we have at present find a way to nationalize (federalize) the damage done in these states. Given what Biden just did in handing $$ to the Central States Pension Fund - it’s not too much of a reach for him to send emergency Covid Relief funds to IL to patch up their public employee pension shortfall. Just watch.
DemocRATS love handing out other people’s money. I’ve been listening to Rush podcasts ever since he passed away. After Obama was selected, there was, during November and December 2008, so much talk of spending and saving the auto companies. Turns out that at the end of 2008, there were 700,000 auto union retirees. 700,000 people getting paid every month, but not making any product. I am not stating that they should not be paid, but the corporate people that made this arrangement do not plan very well. Not only were there 700,000 retirees, the auto workers union contract allowed for many ‘workers’ to decline a productive shift and still get paid for the day. If a factory did not have enough work, the auto companies offered workers a shift in another factory. HOWEVER, the worker had the ‘right’ to decline that offer, and they still received the same pay for that day, even though they did not produce anything. Workers could reject work, still get paid.
So in what other state do you now support the grifting?
Come on, tell us! Where is the state we can all move to in which this sort of grifting does not take place?
Regards,
I am in Wisconsin. But you are right it happens everywhere. But not to the scale of Illinois. In Wisconsin the laws have limited municipality spending and taxing. Also, pensions are limited. And local municipalities have to pay for pensions. They can’t just pass them to the state. Walker made huge changes that are still in force.
Our voting here is corrupt at the state level. But local voting outside of big cities is still good. So the big vote counting centers that are the basis of most of the fraud can’t seem to stop local and state officials from being fairly elected.
Illinois is toast and will never comeback. It will turn into Detroit before it gets back to a viable place to live again.
Sorry if my comment prompting your response appeared provocative or aggressive. Just bothered by these constant statements of "am leaving my state" or "gotta invest your money elsewhere" without any specification as to where.
Regards,
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