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The Illinois pension crisis refers to the rising gap between the pension benefits owed to eligible state employees and the amount of funding set aside by the state to make these future pension payments. As of 2020, the size of Illinois' pension obligation is $237B, but the state's pension funds have only $96B available for payouts to retirees.
State or territory Mean wage in US$ [6] 1 District of Columbia: $87,920 2 Massachusetts: $63,910 3 New York: $61,870 4 Connecticut: $60,780 5 Washington: $59,410 6 California: $59,150 7 Maryland: $58,770 8 Alaska: $58,710 9 New Jersey: $58,210 10 Colorado: $55,820 11 Virginia: $55,310 12 Rhode Island: $54,810 13 Minnesota: $54,200 14 Illinois ...
Illinois’ largest state employee union has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, the union said. The two sides came to agreement in the hours after the union’s previous contract ...
In July 2017, OpenTheBooks released an editorial on Forbes titled Why Illinois is in Trouble - 63,000 Public Employees with $100,000+ Salaries Cost Taxpayers $10B. They found, in total, roughly $12 billion in cash compensation flowing to six-figure government workers when counting the 9,031 federal employees based in Illinois.
The Department of Veterans Affairs placed about 60 employees focused on DEI initiatives on leave, and according to the agency, their combined salaries totaled more than $8 million.
The state and the nation's largest union of public employees will head to court over an arbitrator's decision that Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner was within his rights to order the layoffs of more than 150 state workers last year. [10] The state filed a suit before a Sangamon County, Illinois judge to uphold the arbitrator's ruling. AFSCME Council ...
This is a list of salaries of heads of state and government per year, showing heads of state and heads of government where different, mainly in parliamentary systems.
Later in that same year, the Illinois legislature mandated participation by all Illinois school districts (except those located in the city of Chicago) and all their employees except those covered by the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois. Coverage of schools increased the number of employers in IMRF from 156 to 652 and the ...