From the NY Post:Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña will collect both a city salary and her pension for a total income of $412,193 a year — nearly twice as much as Mayor de Blasio is being paid.
Farina is getting a Department of Education salary of $212,614 — the same as her predecessor, Dennis Walcott, officials told The Post.
But she will also continue to collect her $199,579-a-year DOE pension, which she received upon retiring in 2006 after a 40-year career in the city schools.
“She’s earned her pension, and she’s worth every dime of her salary,” said Phil Walzak, a spokesman for de Blasio.
A Jan. 1 letter offer by de Blasio, signed by Farina, states she will additionally get the DOE’s managerial-benefits package, including vacation and sick-leave allowance.
She can take a $1,000-a-year bonus to opt out of health and welfare benefits, which she already gets as a city pensioner.
She also gets a car and a driver.
Her total income will far exceed that of de Blasio, whose salary is set at $225,000.
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de Blasio loves the expression that NYC is a "tale of two cities".
I wonder which city Farina belongs to.
After all, someone working in the private sector making over $400k a year is "fat cat".
But not Farina, she's just a humble civil servant.
Working for forty years she earned her pension ! What is the problem with the NYP ? Are they running out of stories ?
This city is so sad.....High pension costs aren't the only thing running nyc to the ground.....nyc has become a city of welfare handouts, there's too much shit in this city that the taxpayers are footing the bill for. In a city with so much homelessness, we choose to house illegals and pay illegals to live here and give them too much welfare so they don't self deport themselves. Next is we give the rich way too many tax breaks. Next that has to be done is to stop allowing churches to buy land in nyc, we already have limited space, but yet the government is allowing the churches to buy property while the other homeowners and apartment buildings have to pay more property taxes to make up for the lack of taxes being collected on the churches properties. Nyc is going to be the next detroit....it's only a matter of time when the greed of this city catches up with the government. Nyc is in for alot of trouble because of all these issues but yet nothing will ever be done about it because of corrupt politicians....so the middle incomers will continue to suffer and pay for crap until someone good comes into office and I'm sorry but that "savior" is not going to be Mr diblasio!
Nothing now here: Koslowitz collects a pension from her previous stint as Councilmember, as well as a salary for serving now. Melinda collects also a pension as Councilmember, as well as now a salary as BP. Lancman collects a pension as former Assemblyman, as well as now a salary as Councilman. Avella collects etc., etc., etc.
Seems to me that if someone comes out of retirement to accept a city or state job, he/she should defer receipt of his/her pension until the next retirement - she shouldn't be allowed to double dip.
BTW, Andy Wolf, who used to write the education column in the New York Sun, used to point out how radical Farina's ideas were the first time she was an educrat at the DOE, especially in her opposition to programs for gifted and talented students.
That's disgusting! In a city of starving people for a city employee to be making that much!!!
Isn't she too old for the job - can't we get some slightly younger blood into the mix?
Shouldn't her pension be suspended now that she's back at work?
This is really bad press for her and the greaseball DeBlasio!!!!
The first city is the combination of public sector employees and public assistance recipients. What they "take" is a matter of political negotiation. The politicians, in theory representing all the people, get their campaigns funded by the people they are negotiating with. They also get to increase benefits for people who can vote but don't pay taxes. The end of this fantasy has a name, it is "Detroit".
The other city is composed of people who have to work to pay for the first city. In this city, there's the reality of competition, and all the other disciplines of the marketplace to create fortunes and disasters. Inequality in this city is just called "reality".
The Democratic Party has wandered far from its roots...
"Working for forty years she earned her pension !"
Yes she did, but now she's returning to the city workforce. Can't have it both ways. Un-reitre, and work full time, or stay retired and get a job in the private sector.
40 years of screwing up the NYC education system. Yeah, I would say she has earned her pension.
Isn't it NY state law that permits this, even if it is the City that pays for it? This sounds like one of those "good government" problems that Cuomo used to go after.
"Yes she did, but now she's returning to the city workforce. Can't have it both ways. Un-reitre, and work full time, or stay retired and get a job in the private sector."
What's the difference if the city pays the salary to her or to someone else?
She earned her pension, she is earning her salary. It's not double dipping.
I have no problem with her collection a pension she earned. I do have a problem with her double dipping.
When you are a retired city employee, in my own experience, you are not allowed to double dip on the city's payroll, and you can only continue to collect your pension while employed if your salary is less than your pension. So, she's not only double dipping, she's being paid more than her pension. Two no-no's.
forget double-dipping, what kind of flawed system is it ok to have a 200K guaranteed pension for life? "progressive" indeed
Good for her!
The city and us made it possible by voting the special interest (UFT etc) politicians into office.
She rightly earn her pension and she "paid" for her pension through payroll deductions. A city workers pension is only part of the overall employee package that includes pay,vacation time,sick time,health benefits etc.
City workers earn their pay and pension.
I am a retired NYC HS math teacher. I also served in Nam. (USAF) I earned my pension (which is nowhere near $200K) and benefits. New teachers will not be getting the pension I received. It's a 403B and scaled back benefits. People love to whine but let's see you teach Geometry to some of the kids I taught. You wouldn't last ten minutes. Long live my amazing NYC pension! Long live Queens Crapper! Long live Israel! Death to the Palestinians!
"When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children."
- Albert Shanker, president of the United Federation of Teachers from 1964 to 1985 and president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) from 1974 to 1997
According to the handy calculator at the Wall Street Journal, this broad is in the 2%!!!:
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/10/19/what-percent-are-you/
Is she one of those "fat cats" that Comrade de Blasio wants to tax in order to fund pre-K programs for the vibrant/diverse children?
I'm 100% in favor of it!!!!
TAX HER!!!!!
I want to have a beer with Big Hairy Balls!
Thank you, Mr. Shanker for refreshing us as to your position.
Anonymous said...
"Yes she did, but now she's returning to the city workforce. Can't have it both ways. Un-reitre, and work full time, or stay retired and get a job in the private sector."
What's the difference if the city pays the salary to her or to someone else?
She earned her pension, she is earning her salary. It's not double dipping.
Really? You mean to tell me that there was not ONE OTHER QUALIFIED person in the entire school system that couldn't do the same job for only the regular salary?? This woman better come out with a 99 percent passing rate as much money as the taxpayers are paying her!!
PLUS, the schools aren't the only part of the reason why children are failing so miserably. It's partly the parents fault for not teaching their lil' brats....education should not just stop at school, it should continue at home. Face it our schools are failing so miserably these days because the parents are not there to help the children with their homework or to help them study for tests. So no matter how much money you pay someone to run a schools system, it will not change the fact that the parents are not helping their children succeed. If the parents don't help teach the child, then all this taxpayer money is just going to go right down the drain!
BHB said:
I am a retired NYC HS math teacher. I also served in Nam. (USAF) I earned my pension (which is nowhere near $200K) and benefits.
Yes, you earned your pension, but if you chose to go back to work for either NYC or NYS, should you be able to still collect it while also collecting a salary at the same time? No one forced Fariña to come out of retirement, but she should stop receiving her public pension until she "retires" again.
The interests of the teachers unions and the children in public school are always perfectly aligned.
It must be true because a public school union teacher said it was so.
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