For Immediate Release Contact Robert Fellner, 559-462-0122, 201-206-6469 (cell) Full-career retirees from Orange County municipalities received an average CalPERS pension 54 percent greater than the average salary of area residents, according to […]
Full-career San Diego-area city retirees earn 59% more than residents’ average salary
San Diego County’s full-career municipal retirees received an average $84,145 CalPERS pension last year, according to just-released 2014 pension payout data from TransparentCalifornia.com. The over 600,000 records — obtained through a series […]
Full-career Los Angeles-area city retirees earn 42% more than residents’ average salary
For Immediate Release Contact Robert Fellner, 559-462-0122, 201-206-6469 (cell) Average Los Angeles-area CalPERS payout highest statewide Full-career retirees of Los Angeles County municipalities received an average CalPERS pension worth 42 percent more than […]
Average full-career CalPERS pension worth 20% more than average Californian’s salary
For Immediate Release Contact Robert Fellner, 559-462-0122, 201-206-6469 (cell) California’s full-career retirees received an average CalPERS pension worth 20 percent more than the average Californian’s salary, according to just-released 2014 pension payout data […]
Consolidated 2014 K-12 Press Release
For Immediate Release Contact Robert Fellner, 559-462-0122, 201-206-6469 (cell) Data: No correlation between teacher compensation and performance TUSTIN — K-12 employee compensation data released today by Transparent California shows there is no meaningful […]
Transparent California Release of 2014 K-12 Data, Bay Area
For Immediate Release Contact Robert Fellner, 559-462-0122, 201-206-6469 (cell) Data: No correlation between teacher compensation and performance San Francisco Unified per-pupil spending highest statewide TUSTIN — K-12 employee compensation data released today by […]
Transparent California Release of 2014 K-12 Data, Greater LA Area
Data: No correlation between teacher compensation and performance Chaffey Joint and Anaheim Union High’s teachers lead state with average compensation over $115,000 TUSTIN — K-12 employee compensation data released today by Transparent California […]
OC Register: CSU system continues to swell from administrative bloat
The Orange County Register published an editorial today which draws heavily on Transparent California’s data: Administrative bloat has increasingly become a problem for California schools at all levels, from K-12 through the […]
Governing Magazine: Why We Need to Take the ‘Fire’ Out of ‘Fire Department’
Oregon’s former Secretary of State, Phil Keisling, weighs in on the reality that most fire departments are primarily responding to EMT calls, and offers some interesting solutions: This isn’t just a big-city […]
Unfunded liabilities as quicksand: Why it is so difficult to return to funded status
PensionTsunami.com brings us these remarkably insightful remarks from David Crane that explain why – when already carrying an unfunded liability – a pension system needs to outperform, not merely hit, their investment target in order […]
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