The Number of State Employees in Illinois Who Were Paid More than $100,000 Increased to All-Time High in 2020
The number of individuals in Illinois on a government salary greater than $100,000 annually has increased again. This is why Biden is stealing from other states to pay them off.
Illinois public employees and retirees with $100,000+ paychecks grew from 109,881 (2019) to an all-time high of 122,258 in 2020 – costing taxpayers $15.8 billion.
Congressional “bailouts” made it possible. The recent $1.9 trillion American Rescue Act provided an additional $13.5 billion to Illinois state and local governments. (Look up your hometown here — $350 billion flowed to states and 30,000 communities.)…
…Barbers at State Corrections trimmed off $115,000; janitors at the State Toll Highway Authority cleaned up $123,000;
