And the highest paid state employee is likely a college football coach.
Anyone surprised by this?
I believe it. All the veteran’s representatives for the unemployment offices train in Denver and we’d chat about pay, since every state pays differently. Illinois was the highest and New Mexico was the lowest. So low that they qualified for food stamps and other welfare programs.
“In the meantime, as Illinois taxpayers struggle with the one of the highest overall tax burdens in the country”.
Well, let’s see if we can figure this one out??
Clearly this is a State Government ..... “GONE WILD”! and
taxpayers can go FISH!
Pack up and GO! That’s what happened in Detroit about 40 years ago, ...... GO GO GO and they’ll be NO GOING BACK!!!
I know a Fireman in his early 50s. He’s about to retire from his 2nd job with a full taxpayer guaranteed pension on top of the first one. He will pull down well over $100,000 a year PLUS benefits for the rest of his natural life.
Ah, Illinois. When the wheels finally come off here it’s going to be epic.
L
Any city manager should be worth that much. No auto pound manager is.
IS IS GOOD to be a “public servant”! Personally if anyone tried to convince me to my face that federal government workers were “public servants” who have sacrificed wealth and opportunity to serve the public I would likely punch them straight in the face.
Plus at least an equal amount, if not much more, retired employees.
Madness.
Hard to believe, but the (almost entirely) liberal teachers of Illinois are hell-bent on pushing their tax-paying neighbors into poverty.
Read this shocking article from last year’s Forbes:
Illinois government workers were just granted another tax paid holiday to honor Obama. Another shaft to the taxpayers.
Wonder what this writer is smoking.....whatever it is it's putting him in La-La Land.
Leni
My property taxes in a Chicago suburb are now $24,000 more than doubled in twelve years. So about 6% increase per year. And sales tax is now 11 percent. And of course even with that, the budget is not balanced.
Boy are they in for a rude awakening when the music stops ... again.
This is a governmental coordinated scheme to redistribute wealth to the left.
63,000 * 100,000 = 63 billion?
Is the story saying they’re worth only $53 billion?
Maybe the university professors bring in $53 billion in research grants, and the cost to the taxpayers is only $10 billion?
You are paying the bribe money for the gov’t workers to vote for the democrats.
As close to perpetual motion as you can get. Government pay raises. Their study of surrounding localities comparable employee pay always results in raises all around. Like compounded interest.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder -Bastiat
BIG GOVERNMENT is CRONY SOCIALISM
IL cant pay lottery winners, but a city parking lot supervisor get 100K+ a year ,,
wow