In case you missed our story on what retired state legislators from Lancaster County are getting in annual pension annuities, here’s a handy little chart and breakdown.
The breakdown, after the jump.
• U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts, a Chester County Republican who served 24 years in the state House and several years as a school teacher before being elected to the 16th Congressional District seat, gets $90,867 a year, or $7,572 a month. He retired from the House in December 1996. Since then he’s collected an estimated $1.4 million on top of his base congressional pay, which is $174,000 this year. Pitts also will be eligible for a federal pension when he retires. The 16th District includes Lancaster County.
• Gibson E. Armstrong, a Republican from Refton who served 32 years in the Legislature, gets $79,717 a year, or $6,643 a month. He retired from his 13th District Senate seat in December 2008. Since then he’s collected an estimated total of $239,151.
• Marvin E. Miller Jr., a Republican from Lancaster who served 18 years as a state representative in the 96th Legislative District, gets $62,130 a year, or $5,178 a month. He retired from the House in December 1990. Since then he’s collected an estimated $1.3 million.
• Kenneth E. Brandt, a Republican from Elizabethtown who served 18 years as a state representative in the 98th Legislative District, gets $60,912 a year, or $5,076 a month. He retired in December 1990. Since then he’s collected an estimated $1.3 million.
• Jere W. Schuler, a former social studies teacher and Republican from West Lampeter Township who served 20 years as a state representative in the 43rd Legislative District, gets $55,372 a year, or $4,614 a month. He retired in December 2002. Since then he’s collected an estimated $498,352.
• Noah W. Wenger, a Republican from Stevens who served 30 years in the Legislature, gets $47,758 a year, or $3,980 a month. He retired from the 36th District Senate seat in December 2006. Since then he’s collected an estimated $238,789.
• David “Chip” Brightbill, a Republican from Lebanon County who served 24 years as a state senator, gets $45,076 a year, or $3,756 a month. He lost his 48th District seat, which covered part of Lancaster County, and left office in December 2006. Since then he’s collected an estimated $225,380.
• Arthur D. Hershey, a Republican from Chester County who represented part of eastern Lancaster County in the House until the legislative districts were redrawn in 2003, gets $40,004 a year, or $3,334 a month. He retired from his 13th District seat in December 2008 after 26 years. Since then he’s collected an estimated $120,012.
• John E. Barley, a Republican from Lancaster who represented the southern part of the county for more than 17 years, gets $35,050 a year, or $2,921 a month.
He abruptly resigned his 100th District seat without explanation in April 2002. Since then he’s collected an estimated $338,816.
• Jere L. Strittmatter, a Republican from Manheim Township who served as a legislative staffer and then 14 years in the House, gets $27,132 a year, or $2,261 a month. He lost the 97th District seat to Baldwin in the 2002 primary. He’s collected an estimated $244,184 since December 2002.
• Thomas E. Armstrong, a Republican from Marietta who served 12 years in the House, gets $12,551 a year, or $1,046 a month. Armstrong lost his 98th District seat to Republican Rep. David Hickernell in the 2002 primary. Since December of that year he has collected an estimated $112,960.
• Terry R. Scheetz, a Republican from Stevens who served 12 years in the House, gets $10,104 a year, or $842 a month. He retired from the 99th District seat in December 1994. Since then he has collected an estimated $171,764.
• Roy Baldwin, who served four years in the House before being ousted in the 2006 GOP primary by now-Rep. John Bear, gets $6,435 a year, or $536 a month. He has collected an estimated $32,174 since leaving office in December 2006.
• Katie True, a Republican from East Hempfield Township who served 16 years in the House and as director of the Pennsylvania Commission for Women, became eligible in December 2010 for an annual pension of $26,443. But she took a job in Gov. Tom Corbett’s administration as head of the Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, a move that froze her monthly payments of $2,204 in April of this year. True served eight two-year terms in the House — four in the 37th Legislative District and four more in the 41st.
