"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."
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The deep state is real. It's the unaccountable over-paid administrative state. They are the borg.
Mafia is kid's stuff compared to The State.
Great post, Deborah. There is a lot to know out there... understatement of the year perhaps. But it is good to see factually based examples of the rot that is the deep state. How does this work anyway, is there something special in Great Lakes water that compels Illinois voters to elect the very establishment that so rips them off. Yeah, I know, a good many more are on the government tit at less than a 100K a year too. I guess it is general delusion that somehow all will end well. End it will, though likely not well.
The head dog catcher ("animal control officer") in my county gets $400,000/year.
It's ridiculous.
The good news is I see where Illinois can save $63 billion dollars.
They think Zippy is still in charge and the Dick from IL will bail them out.
They are in for a shock.
Ack, make that $6.3, but alas I see the change rounds up to $10.
Gives 'I wouldn't vote for you for dog catcher' a new twist :)
It's not the salaries killing Illinois, it's the pensions. State workers pad their pensions in their last years by claiming unpaid vacation and overtime which jumps the numbers. Politicians get a separate pension for each job they held. The late Paul Simon, Senator , Presidential candidate and feted celebrity to the left, was getting 5 separate pensions while in office.
They slipped in a state constitutional amendment making it illegal to lower their pension benefits. There isn't a court in the country that will declare that unconstitutional.
Thanks, Amp, great point.
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