Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Public workers enjoy golden nest eggs

The Journal News reports:
Just how well do many Yonkers cops and firefighters do when they leave the job?


One detective worked enough overtime his final year to get a $140,000-a-year pension that was 75 percent more than his base pay. A husband and wife who retired from the police department have annual pensions totaling $257,000.


Those three and more than 90 other Yonkers police and firefighters are among the 160 municipal retirees from the Lower Hudson Valley with annual pensions exceeding $100,000 - including four top administrators at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla during the hospital's financial crisis this decade.
Nice work if you can get it.