Top 100 Teacher Salaries 2010
Bill Zettler is a free-lance writer and consultant specializing in public sector compensation. He can be contacted at this email address.
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The Moral Nanosecond: Life begins in an instant but which instant?
Whatever your take on abortion is, pro or con, there can be no argument that abortion does violence to the embryo or fetus aborted. Therefore it follows that abortion is violence against “something” whether…
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Is $464,000/yr Salary Too Much for a Village Employee? How about $75,000/mo?
Bell, California has nothing on the Village of Mundelein, Illinois By Bill Zettler You have probably heard about Bell CA and the millions of dollars it’s employees and managers received unbeknownst to the taxpayers….
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Barack Obama, Last of the Progressives
Ten reasons why progressives’ 100-year ascendancy is about to begin its inevitable decline. 1. Progressives stand firm: “No compromise with voters.” Neither “tone deaf” nor “out of touch” are adequate descriptions of die-hard progressives….
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2010 State Pensions: 4,200 Over $100,000 Up 27% From 2009
Top 100 Average $219,000 – Ninety-nine Are Educators 10 Amazing Facts About Illinois State Pensions: 1. Based upon current rules more than 25,000 public employees will have $100K plus pensions by 2020. 2. Every…
Read MoreState of the State Pensions Part 4: What is the solution?
The first thing we all need to accept is this: what we owe for public employee retirement benefits, as currently constituted, cannot be paid. Under any reasonable scenario, the tab for public employee pensions…
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State of the State Pensions Part 3: Is the system fair to taxpayers?
By Bill Zettler What we can see from this discussion is the inherent unfairness of a system that rewards public employees far beyond what their employers, the taxpayers, have available to them. In Illinois…
Read MoreState of the State Pensions Part 2: What are the sources of the problems?
By Bill Zettler #1 Source of the Problem: Salaries are too high. Basically the pensions are too lucrative and in many cases the salaries are too high compared to similar jobs in the private…
Read MoreState of the State Pensions Part 1: What is the magnitude of the problem?
State of the State Pensions: What the Next Governor Needs to Say to the People of Illinois. A four part series. Over the last several months we have presented Champion News readers with a…
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Teacher Unions Say Pensions Are Too Low
Unions Think Top 25 TRS Pensions Should Be $82 Million Higher. By Bill Zettler One of the top legislative priorities of the Illinois Education Association is a plan they call “80, 30 and out.”…
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Teacher’s Salary Increase Costs Taxpayers $1.3 Million in Extra Pension Payments
Would you pay $15,000 over four years to get $1.3 million over the next 29? In my last article “Pension Insanity” I documented how some teachers can get pensions more than twice their salaries….
Read MorePension Insanity: $75,000 Salary Turns Into $155,000 Pension for One Kindergarten Teacher
I guess it’s OK though; it’s for the kids. Every time I think I cannot possibly be any more cynical about public pensions and salaries than I already am, I find some new data…
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State University Top 25 Pensions Average $152,000 for 30 years work
By Bill Zettler Top 100 average $114,000 for only 28 years work. One of the state pension systems we don’t talk about much is SURS (State University Retirement System). SURS is the system with…
Read MoreAny Pension Reform MUST Limit Taxpayer Liability
The 5% of Illinois workers who are in the state pension systems cannot have an unlimited claim on the 95% who are not. The one huge problem with the current pension system is the…
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More evidence that Illinois taxpayers pay too much for education, not too little
By Bill Zettler Wisconsin: Top Teacher Salary $89K Less Than Illinois Top Teacher, Top Superintendent $170K Less. If Illinois wants a model of how to run a public school system for a reasonable cost…
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