Sounds like a raw deal. It’s nice to have severance package but the price is losing your pension if you leave… not worth it. Companies change, get shitty, and then you’d be stuck with it.
I’m part of the Texas Municipal Retirement System. I put 7% of my salary into TMRS, and th city double-matches that, so I’ve got 21% going into the pension annually.
When I retire, the pension pays me according to what I put in and what I make the last 5 years of my career. Each member city that I’ve worked at contributes to my pension until I doe according to how long I’ve worked there.
The biggest thing to understand about a pension versus a 401k is that you can’t cash out on a pension. When I retire, I’ll get paid the rest of my life and even get raises, but I won’t have a huge pile of money I can pull out or give to my heirs.
On the flip side, I don’t run the risk of outliving my savings.
Can someone explain me how pensions work? Isn’t that some sort of 401k that is tied to the company and you lose access to when you switch companies?
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
Sounds like a raw deal. It’s nice to have severance package but the price is losing your pension if you leave… not worth it. Companies change, get shitty, and then you’d be stuck with it.
deleted by creator
Yep there’s so many ways to get someone to quit
It depends on the organization.
I’m part of the Texas Municipal Retirement System. I put 7% of my salary into TMRS, and th city double-matches that, so I’ve got 21% going into the pension annually.
When I retire, the pension pays me according to what I put in and what I make the last 5 years of my career. Each member city that I’ve worked at contributes to my pension until I doe according to how long I’ve worked there.
The biggest thing to understand about a pension versus a 401k is that you can’t cash out on a pension. When I retire, I’ll get paid the rest of my life and even get raises, but I won’t have a huge pile of money I can pull out or give to my heirs.
On the flip side, I don’t run the risk of outliving my savings.