Here is an article from thegatewaypundit.com on how the number of state employees in Illinois earning over $100,000 just keeps going up.
From the article at thegatewaypundit.com :
Public schools (40,000) – Last year, nearly 24,500 educators earned a six-figure salary while more than 15,500 retirees received six-figure pensions. Most Illinois schools were not back to fulltime, in-person instruction as of March 2021.
Sixteen retired school superintendents pocketed $300,000+ in retirement pensions, among them Lawrence A. Wyllie (Lincoln-Way CHSD 210 – $351,250); Henry Bangser (New Trier Township HSD 203 – $341,433); Gary Catalani (Wheaton-Warrenville Unit SD 200 – $339,915); Laura Murray (Homewood-Flossmoor CHSD 233 – $334,418); and Mary Curley (Hinsdale CCSD 181 – $324,796).
Here is the article at Forbes referenced by thegatewaypunidt.com.
From the Forbes article:
We found tree trimmers in Chicago making $106,663; nurses at state corrections earning up to $277,100; junior college presidents making $491,095; university doctors earning up to $2 million; and 111 small town managers who out-earned every governor of the 50 states ($202,000).
Colleges & universities (16,000) – Bradley Underwood made $2.9 million as the basketball coach at the University of Illinois. Junior college power couple Dale Chapman ($491,095) and Linda Terrill Chapman ($242,070) combined for a $733,000 income at Lewis and Clark Community College. Fady Toufic Charbel ($2 million); Mark Gonzalez ($1.1 million); and Konstantin Slavin ($1 million) are million-dollar doctors at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). A UIC pension paying out $524,865 goes to a retired doctor, Tapas Das Gupta.
And the dems/libs/progs in DC are bailing out these states. NY – never a model of fiscal responsibility – recently voted to increase its annual budget – all as a result of Federal bailouts.
What private sector company offers these kind of pensions?
With Federal bailouts, don’t expect any of this to change. It will only get worse.
ANYTIME you hear a blue state complaining about it’s budget, keep the above examples in mind. They have created their own mess and have no one to blame but themselves.