10 percent of Pasadena’s retirees earned at least $100,000 from annual pensions (Long Beach: school, income)

[SportyandMisty]

Roughly 10 percent of Pasadena’s retirees earned at least $100,000 from annual pensions through the state’s retirement system in 2016, according to a report released Wednesday.

Transparent California, a government watchdog group, ranked cities, including Pasadena, Riverside, Long Beach, Anaheim and Torrance, among the 25 public agencies with the most pensioners receiving six-figure retirement income in the state.

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/gove...nnual-pensions

The number of retired public employees with pensions of at least $100,000 has grown 63 percent statewide since 2012, the group found. Clearly, it is good to be a "public servant" and retire with a gold-plated pension & Cadillac health care on the public's back.

[Patrolman]

Ask yourself this - Who gave them those pensions? The people you elected into office, that's who.

[davidt1]

It's more like the people public employee unions elected into office.

[Patrolman]

If a politician's vote can be bought, that doesn't say much about their character or ethics. Yet, they still get voted in, election cycle after election cycle.

Both the LAPD and LAFD endorsed Wendy Gruel for L.A. mayor and yet Garcetti won. Go figure.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by Patrolman

If a politician's vote can be bought, that doesn't say much about their character or ethics. Yet, they still get voted in, election cycle after election cycle.

Both the LAPD and LAFD endorsed Wendy Gruel for L.A. mayor and yet Garcetti won. Go figure.

and we can go back even further to the mayor and the city council in the 70s. My dad had a very high position in the DWP when he retired. He retired at 65 years old, with a nice income. By time he passed away his retirement was higher than his salary when he was still working. I have a cousin who was a school secretary for the city. I can't believe the benefits and income she has coming in. The same with my brother who was just a gardener for the city, though he was a senior gardener. They both have a retirement much larger than my husband's and he was middle to upper management. too bad he didn't work for the city of L.A.