City Name Median Earnings for City Residents Medians Earnings for City Staff City Earnings as % of Residents Earnings Bell Gardens $ 23,425 $ 84,543 361% El Monte $ 27,115 $ 86,973 […]
The Press-Enterprise: Tax increase and service cuts loom
A great editorial in today’s edition of The Press-Enterprise: One long-term solution to this problem is simply to have fewer public employees who would receive a pension through CalPERS, and utilize public-private partnerships […]
LA Daily News Op-ed: What’s really driving CalPERS contribution rates higher
Our op-ed in the Los Angeles Daily News addresses the misleading tactic of citing raw averages as an indicator of a pension plan’s generosity: If public pensions are so modest, as the California […]
Analysis of Employee Compensation at the Marin Municipal Water District
The Marin Municipal Water District recently proposed a rate hike that would increase most residents’ water bills by an average 27 percent. The proposal comes on the heels of a recently released “cost of service analysis” […]
CalPERS 2014 Pension Payouts Higher than Previously Reported
2014 was the first year in which CalPERS provided an annual pension amount, as compared to the base monthly amount they provided in previous years. Multiple CalPERS members reported to Transparent California that […]
Full-career retirees comprise 19% of CalPERS membership, receive 38% of benefits
On our website, viewers can see the average full-career pension by employer for CalPERS or any other public pension plan in California. We define a full-career as those with at least 30 […]
Full-career Inland Empire public retirees earn 67% more than residents’ average salary
For Immediate Release Contact Robert Fellner, 559-462-0122, 201-206-6469 (cell) Full-career retirees of Inland Empire governments received an average CalPERS pension worth 67 percent more than the average salary of area workers, according to just-released 2014 […]
San Joaquin Valley’s full-career municipal retirees earn more than residents’ average salary
For Immediate Release Contact Robert Fellner, 559-462-0122, 201-206-6469 (cell) Full-career retirees of San Joaquin Valley-area governments received an average CalPERS pension worth more than the salary of most area residents, according to just-released 2014 […]
Average 2014 pensions for California’s 20 independent county retirement systems
Transparent California now has 2014 pension data for virtually every major California government agency. In addition to the 2014 data for CalPERS and CalSTRS, data is now available for many of the […]
Full-career Bay Area city retirees earn 40% more than residents’ average salary
For Immediate Release Contact Robert Fellner, 559-462-0122, 201-206-6469 (cell) Full-career retirees from the cities of Oakland, Fremont and Hayward received an average $83,464 CalPERS pension last year, nearly 40% higher than the annual wages of […]
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