Former New York cleaner receives a pension of $ 285 thousand per year
Eugene Egan, the former head of the sanitary department of New York, receives a pension in 285 047 dollars a year, which is twice as much as he received while he was working.
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“The long list of six-figure pensions among former New York City government employees shows just how big the financial burden the city is being forced to bear,” said Tim Hoefer, chief executive of the analytics firm. Empire Center.
As director of a garbage collection agency, Egan earned 128 189 dollars a year, just that was his salary when he retired in 2015 a year.
But since the 86-year-old man began working in the department until July 1973, he was connected to the city’s most generous retirement plan, known as Tier 1and was able to increase his retirement savings over the course of a long career.
The retiree himself called these figures "fake news" and said that he did not want to look like an "ass" just because he received a pension.
“The fact is, I worked for almost 60 years,” Egan added.
According to a source in the department, Egan did not like to talk about how long he worked in the department while he was there, but he was known as a professional and a good guy.
The source said that for many years Egan had contributed his own contributions to the pension fund in order to be able to receive a good pension.
pension plan Tier 1 no longer available to today's urban workers. The average pension in the Department of Sanitation is 49 405 US dollars.
According to statistics, there are only 853 active members of the pension program in the city Tier 1.
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