Many WI Public Employees Pull in Millions from Pensions
Guess who pays for that
MILWAUKEE – Tom Barrett presides over a $1.42 billion budget and a "company" with some 8,300 employees, but with all that responsibility the Milwaukee mayor only ranks seventh on the list of top paid city employees with $145,635 annual earnings.
Perhaps more striking, his estimated $2.86 million lifetime pension also ranks seventh among his Milwaukee peers, according to a new report by Taxpayers United of America. Those figures demonstrate how the public pension system is simply unsustainable, say members of that group.
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