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In NJ from my experiences these jobs are a racket.  High salaries, good benefits, pensions after retirement, low stress, pretty much have to kill someone to get fired, etc...  Just the other day I saw three workers from the town changing a lightbulb at the library.  Talk about a waste of tax payer money!!

 

Not gonna make this into Martin Luther’s 95 Theses here.  Are these jobs kind of a joke where you live?

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5 minutes ago, joesixpack said:

About the only nj workers I really see WORK are the dmv people. They’re always packed with customers.

I’m not even sure the DMV is ran by the state anymore.  Hence the better service over the years.  That place used to be a nightmare!

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1 hour ago, Another Fan said:

In NJ from my experiences these jobs are a racket.  High salaries, good benefits, pensions after retirement, low stress, pretty much have to kill someone to get fired, etc...  Just the other day I saw three workers from the town changing a lightbulb at the library.  Talk about a waste of tax payer money!!

 

Not gonna make this into Martin Luther’s 95 Theses here.  Are these jobs kind of a joke where you live?

 

but they aren't very smart and they honestly hate their job and life and exitense

 

 

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You ain't seen nothin' till you look into the Chicago/Illinois municipal pensions. Here are some salaries:

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2017/07/25/why-illinois-is-in-trouble-63000-public-employees-with-100000-salaries-cost-taxpayers-10b/#7042e7d81141

 

Illinois is broke and continues to flirt with junk bond status. But the state’s financial woes aren’t stopping 63,000 government employees from bringing home six-figure salaries and higher.

Whenever we open the books, Illinois is consistently one of the worst offenders. Recently, we found auto pound supervisors in Chicago making $144,453; nurses at state corrections earning up to $254,781; junior college presidents making $465,420; university doctors earning $1.6 million; and 84 small-town “managers” out-earning every U.S. governor.

Using our interactive mapping tool, quickly review (by ZIP code) the 63,000 Illinois public employees who earn more than $100,000 and cost taxpayers $10 billion. Just click a pin and scroll down to see the results rendered in the chart beneath the map.

 

 

Here are a few examples of what you’ll uncover:

  • 20,295 teachers and school administrators – including superintendents Joyce Carmine ($398,229) at Park Forest School District 63, Troy Paraday ($384,138) at Calumet City School District 155, and Jon Nebor ($377,409) at Indian Springs School District 109. Four of the top five salaries are in the south suburbs – not the affluent north shore.
  • 10,676 rank-and-file workers and managers in Chicago – including $216,200 for embattled Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) and $400,000 for Ginger Evans, Commissioner of Aviation – including a $100,000 bonus. Timothy Walter, a deputy police chief, made $240,917 – that’s $146,860 in overtime on top of his $94,056 base salary. Ramona Perkins, a police communications operator, pulled down $121,318 in overtime while making $196,726!
  • 9,567 college and university employees – including the southern Illinois junior college power couple Dale Chapman ($465,420) and Linda Terrill Chapman ($217,290). The pair combined for a $682,000 income at Lewis and Clark Community College. Fady Toufic Charbel ($1.58 million) and Konstantin Slavin ($1.04 million) are million-dollar doctors at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
  • 8,640 State of Illinois employees – including $258,070 for Marian Frances Cook, a “contractual worker” at the newly created Dept. of Innovation and Technology. Further, there are the “barber” and “teacher of barbering” positions in the state prisons making $100,000+. Loreatha Coleman made $254,781 as a nurse at the Dept. of Corrections.
  • 8,817 small town city and village employees – including 84 municipal managers out-earning every U.S. governor at $180,000. These managers include Lawrence Hileman (Glenview – $297,988); Michael Ellis (Grayslake – $264,486); Robert Kiely (Lake Forest – $255,247); Kevin Bowens (Libertyville – $254,428); and Richard Nahrstadt (Northbrook – $250,248).
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22 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

You ain't seen nothin' till you look into the Chicago/Illinois municipal pensions. Here are some salaries:

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2017/07/25/why-illinois-is-in-trouble-63000-public-employees-with-100000-salaries-cost-taxpayers-10b/#7042e7d81141

 

Illinois is broke and continues to flirt with junk bond status. But the state’s financial woes aren’t stopping 63,000 government employees from bringing home six-figure salaries and higher.

Whenever we open the books, Illinois is consistently one of the worst offenders. Recently, we found auto pound supervisors in Chicago making $144,453; nurses at state corrections earning up to $254,781; junior college presidents making $465,420; university doctors earning $1.6 million; and 84 small-town “managers” out-earning every U.S. governor.

Using our interactive mapping tool, quickly review (by ZIP code) the 63,000 Illinois public employees who earn more than $100,000 and cost taxpayers $10 billion. Just click a pin and scroll down to see the results rendered in the chart beneath the map.

 

 

 

Here are a few examples of what you’ll uncover:

  • 20,295 teachers and school administrators – including superintendents Joyce Carmine ($398,229) at Park Forest School District 63, Troy Paraday ($384,138) at Calumet City School District 155, and Jon Nebor ($377,409) at Indian Springs School District 109. Four of the top five salaries are in the south suburbs – not the affluent north shore.
  • 10,676 rank-and-file workers and managers in Chicago – including $216,200 for embattled Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) and $400,000 for Ginger Evans, Commissioner of Aviation – including a $100,000 bonus. Timothy Walter, a deputy police chief, made $240,917 – that’s $146,860 in overtime on top of his $94,056 base salary. Ramona Perkins, a police communications operator, pulled down $121,318 in overtime while making $196,726!
  • 9,567 college and university employees – including the southern Illinois junior college power couple Dale Chapman ($465,420) and Linda Terrill Chapman ($217,290). The pair combined for a $682,000 income at Lewis and Clark Community College. Fady Toufic Charbel ($1.58 million) and Konstantin Slavin ($1.04 million) are million-dollar doctors at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
  • 8,640 State of Illinois employees – including $258,070 for Marian Frances Cook, a “contractual worker” at the newly created Dept. of Innovation and Technology. Further, there are the “barber” and “teacher of barbering” positions in the state prisons making $100,000+. Loreatha Coleman made $254,781 as a nurse at the Dept. of Corrections.
  • 8,817 small town city and village employees – including 84 municipal managers out-earning every U.S. governor at $180,000. These managers include Lawrence Hileman (Glenview – $297,988); Michael Ellis (Grayslake – $264,486); Robert Kiely (Lake Forest – $255,247); Kevin Bowens (Libertyville – $254,428); and Richard Nahrstadt (Northbrook – $250,248).

 

And the highest paid state worker makes about $3.5M a year, and his assistants more than half a million annually.

 

(Lovie Smith, as coach of the Illini, and his coordinators.)  

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2 hours ago, DC Tom said:

 

And the highest paid state worker makes about $3.5M a year, and his assistants more than half a million annually.

 

(Lovie Smith, as coach of the Illini, and his coordinators.)  

 

Illinois isn't the only one.  39 out of 50 States

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9 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

You Canadians, always trying to level the field.

 

you tink your state workers have it soft

 

by gum you can sit there all day working on yer Molson Muscle

 

 

11 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

You Canadians, always trying to level the field.

 

people are envying a job where you don't think and you do nothing all day?

 

didn't you grow up around people like this?

 

ten of them through the years retired and said they basically pissed away their whole life for a pension, and their jobs required a decent level of thinking and accomplishment

 

 

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5 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

you tink your state workers have it soft

 

by gum you can sit there all day working on yer Molson Muscle

 

 

 

people are envying a job where you don't think and you do nothing all day?

 

didn't you grow up around people like this?

 

ten of them through the years retired and said they basically pissed away their whole life for a pension, and their jobs required a decent level of thinking and accomplishment

 

 

As far as I know, I've never tinked a state worker, although there's been a flagger or two that flipped his sign for me.

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9 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

As far as I know, I've never tinked a state worker, although there's been a flagger or two that flipped his sign for me.

 

Canajian by jove.

 

i tink i'll gooo to the stur, get a pepper

 

 

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2 hours ago, row_33 said:

 

you tink your state workers have it soft

 

by gum you can sit there all day working on yer Molson Muscle

 

 

 

people are envying a job where you don't think and you do nothing all day?

 

didn't you grow up around people like this?

 

ten of them through the years retired and said they basically pissed away their whole life for a pension, and their jobs required a decent level of thinking and accomplishment

 

 

There are days that seems nice!  Especially today when the whole phone system here just went out

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26 minutes ago, Another Fan said:

There are days that seems nice!  Especially today when the whole phone system here just went out

 

truth....

 

but over 35 years it destroys those who have a brain and some ambition

 

a few men broke down and cried when they retired as they told me "never work for the Government...."

 

i haven't in that capacity so far.... retained or seconded on projects or cases only...   :D

 

much enjoyed

 

 

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