Tag: public workers
The brief’s key findings are: Whether public teachers are over- or under-paid is a source of lively debate. This study sheds new light on the topic by using more accurate estimates of benefit costs. The results show that teachers earn roughly the same as similar private sector workers. However, given cuts to pension benefits for…
The brief’s key findings are: The conventional wisdom is that all state and local government workers receive a lifetime annuity in retirement from their employer pension plan. The analysis confirms this presumption for most workers, but also finds that a small share will receive some income that is not annuitized. About 6 percent of a…
