Search Double-Dippers: Public employees with both pensions and salaries

This database lists 2,380 public employees in Maine as of 2014 who are receiving pension benefits while also working and receiving salaries from taxpayer-supported jobs in the public sector. It includes both state and municipal workers and public school employees, according to the Maine Public Employees Retirement System. State law allows retirees to return to work and continue to collect retirement, but these employees - with the exception of classroom teachers - can earn only 75 percent of the salary for the position, unless they were hired prior to 2011, when that provision was passed. All information is public and was provided in response to a Freedom of Access Act request by the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. Read the story: Are public workers who double dip unfairly criticized?