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Re:Amazon added a non-compete after the employee entered the... by Spooky23 on Sunday June 14, 2020 @04:46PM (#23521211)
For a civilian employee, the pension basically equates to about a 20% premium on top of salary. Usually pensions are 60% of salary after 25-30 years. It’s not worth as much as you’re estimating, unless those employees get free healthcare or something else.

The crazy benefits that people nag about are for uniformed folks only, as they tend to get overtime based on seniority, and don’t have aggressive caps. Most civilian employees like teachers don’t get anything like that.

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Re:Amazon added a non-compete after the employee entered the... by SiNiquity on Sunday June 14, 2020 @08:55PM (#23522814)
US federal civilian pension (FERS) is 1.1% per year after 20 years, so roughly 27-33% of your final 3 years of salary. They also took out the hacks for overtime, bonuses, etc. to prevent the games you sometimes see with state and local pensions.

The caveat to that is as of today you contribute 4.4% of your salary / year into the pension fund, in addition to 401K savings + social security. The Obama administration raised it from 0.8%.

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