* In 2001 taxpayers contributed $423 million dollars to state employee health insurance premiums, while in 2010 taxpayers contributed more than $1 billion dollars. In 2010, state employees paid $64 million toward their health insurance, or about 5.6% of the total cost. (ETF Health Care Analysis)
* From 2001 to 2010 taxpayers spent more than $8 billion dollars on state employee health care coverage—over the same period of time state employees contributed about $398 million. (ETF Health Care Analysis)
* Public employers contributed almost $1.37 billion to the state’s pension fund in 2009, while employees contributed about $8 million, or about 0.6%. (LFB paper 84 Wisconsin Retirement System, Table 28)
* From 2000 to 2009 taxpayers spent about $12.6 billion on public employee pensions, during the same period public employees contributed $55.4 million. (LFB paper 84 Wisconsin Retirement System, Table 28)
* When looking at state operations, state employees account for about 60% of taxpayer cost—77% of state operations for the UW are employees, 70% for corrections, 63% for health services. (State Budget Office Memo 2-9-11)
* Wisconsin taxpayers currently make nearly a 100% payment for the employee portion of the public sector pension contribution. Illinois and Indiana taxpayers contribute the entire employee portion as well, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio pay 0% of the employee contribution. (State Budget Office Memo 2-9-11)
* Public employees in Wisconsin are vested in the retirement system immediately, while in Illinois it takes 8 years, 10 years in Indiana, 4 years in Iowa, 10 years in Michigan, 3 years in Minnesota, and 5 years in Ohio. (State Budget Office Memo 2-9-11)
* Taxpayers spent $733 million of general purpose revenue on fringe benefits for state employees in fiscal year 2010. (State Budget Office Memo 2-9-11)
* Fringe benefits made up 25.6% of school district expenditures in 2008-09. (State Budget Office Memo 2-9-11)
* The average Wisconsin state employee compensation (salary and fringe benefits) in 2010-11 was $76,500. (Source: Fiscal Burea memo, 1/10/11)
* Employee salary and fringe benefits comprises more than 60% of state government GPR operations costs. (Source: State Budget Office)
* The average Wisconsin teacher compensation (salary and fringe benefits) in 2009-10 was $74,844. (Source: Department of Public Instruction website)
* Employee salary and fringe benefits comprise 75% of total school district expenditures statewide. (Source: State Budget Office)
* Wisconsin taxpayers pay over $1 billion per year for state government employee health insurance, more than double what was paid only 10 years ago. The employees themselves pay only 6% of that amount. (Source: Department of Employee Trust Funds)
* State and local governments combined paid more than $1.3 billion in contributions to the Wisconsin Retirement System in 2009. Employees contributed only 0.6% of this amount. (Source: Legislative Fiscal Bureau Informational Paper 84)