Government Employee Pensions/Pay

Last week we published the Top 10 Superintendents salaries. To show how excessive salaries effect pension liabilities we are publishing the Top 15 pensions in TRS all of which are former superintendents except James…

When it comes to overpaid public employees it is difficult to argue that K-12 school superintendents aren’t at the top of the list. What exactly is it that supers do to justify $300,000 plus…

The state employee pension systems should be shut down and the state should get out of the pension business. When government unions are allowed to run up the cost of paying state employees to…

SB1 Pension Reform bill – much ado about nothing.   The good news: about 75% of state pensions will see COLA cuts adding up to $100 million. The bad news: that’s only about 1%…

Championnews has a long tradition of reporting on the high and outrageous salaries paid to current employees especially those in the K-12 Industrial Complex. But Family Taxpayers Foundation (FTF) has done research that shows…

The Family Taxpayers Foundation recently published a chart of the various numbers associated with the 5 state pension systems called “Illinois State Pension Systems Numbers Matrix” and it can be found at the link…

What the idiots in our government — including the court system — don’t have the intellectual capacity to grasp is that no state constitution can guarantee the impossible. At the end of the day,…

Contractual Fringe benefits:   Sabbatical leave up to one full school year for such activities as study, travel, writing or other professional activities. This is after working all of 6 years without having any…

The Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund is the pension fund that provides pensions for virtually all city, township, non-certified school employees and county workers in IL outside of Cook County. With 394,000 members it has…