CT state employee pensions are less generous today

The pension system in place in the late 1980s, Tier 1, has been whittled down repeatedly by concessions deals and other contract changes, the last one (Tier 4) taking place in 2017. The median salary for a unionized, Executive Branch state employee with 30 years of experience in a non-hazardous post is about $98,179 per year. The CT Mirror examined the potential annual pension for a hypothetical worker from this group, retiring at age 65, in all five tiers.