Until then, the workers contributed 3 percent of their salaries toward their pensions.

As a candidate for governor, Walker proposed that state employees pay more toward their pensions saying it would save the state about $180 million a year.

But he added a demand that future workers contribute 6 percent of their earnings toward their pensions, up from 2 percent for current transit employees.

It would be a stretch to accuse some of those on the list of being dilettantes in the jobs that count toward their pensions.

Federal employees would have to contribute more toward their pensions.

But it added a demand that new workers pay 6 percent of their earnings toward their pensions, up from 2 percent for current workers.

Public employees pay 2 percent of their paychecks toward their pensions.

Not only that, he said they stopped having to contribute 3 percent of their pay toward their pensions.

The $10,000 in extra pay counts toward teachers' pensions, adding to the cost of the program over time.

Workers now generally contribute 3 percent of their salaries toward their pensions.