Jim Tobin at a Crystal Lake press conference where he passed out a list of the top 100 local (non-school) government pensions. He will be at Christ the King Church in Wonder Lake at 1 on Sunday afternoon.
National Taxpayers United of Illinois is an equal opportunity offender.
For the past several years he has been blowing the warning whistle about the generosity of public employee pensions.
He has gone county-by-county revealing local government, including school government, pensions and compared those to the average household income.
He has published state employee pensions. The highest are medical professionals who worked for universities.
Tobin has published the top 50 legislative pensions. (I didn’t make the list.)
Today, the figures below are going to make retired judges angry. As a group they are the highest paid pensioners. (Because of my inexperience with tables, I’m limiting the information to the annual judicial pension.)
Top 100 Judges Pensions as of 10/1/2010 (funded by state taxes)
- BARRY, TOBIAS – 176,043
- HARRISON II, MOSES – 171,561
- RARICK III, PHILIP – 170,728
- HEIPLE, JAMES – 169,743
- MILLER, BENJAMIN – 169,743
- MCMORROW, MARY – 169,731
- SCOTT, RICHARD – 168,209
- NICKELS, JOHN – 162,428
- BYRNE, ROBERT – 161,771
- CALLUM, THOMAS – 161,771
- CAMPBELL, CALVIN – 161,771
- COOK, ROBERT – 161,771
- GREIMAN, ALAN – 161,771
- GROMETER, ROBERT – 161,771
- MCNULTY, JILL – 161,771
- BUCKLEY, ROBERT – 161,469
- COHEN, JUDITH – 161,469
- COUSINS JR, WILLIAM – 161,469
- SOUTH, LESLIE – 161,457
- TULLY, JOHN – 161,457
- WOLFSON, WARREN – 161,457
- BARTH, FRANCIS – 160,224
- CHAPMAN, CHARLES – 160,224
- CLARKE, BARNES – 160,065
- INGLIS, LAWRENCE – 159,759
- RAKOWSKI, THOMAS – 159,759
- GEIGER, FRED – 158,579
- HOURIHANE, JOHN – 158,071
- DIXON, PATRICK – 157,510
- NOTTOLINI, GENE – 155,300
- KAPALA, FREDERICK – 155,096
- SCHWARTZ, DENNIS – 152,137
- MCGANN, PATRICK – 152,010
- OMALLEY, MICHAEL – 152,010
- ROCHFORD, MARY – 152,010
- SCHUERING, MARK – 152,010
- SCHUWERK JR, WILLIAM – 152,010
- STUTTLEY, MICHAEL – 152,010
- HARTMAN, CHARLES – 151,806
- GRUBB, GERALD – 151,790
- AULT, JAMES – 150,200
- EVANS, STEPHEN – 150,019
- LEWIS, WILLIAM – 148,708
- OBRIEN, THOMAS – 148,708
- WILHELM, CHARLES – 148,654
- DI VITO, GINO – 148,564
- BARRA, JOHN – 148,445
- BERLAND, RICHARD – 148,445
- BYRON, NICHOLAS – 148,445
- COOGAN, DAVID – 148,445