Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Clifton $cott: How $weet It I$

By Jaclyn Houghton, CNHI News Service ~ After 40 years in state government service, Clifton Scott traded in a five-figure salary for a six-figure retirement check. Now he draws both, collecting $146,000 a year in a government pension for a job where his final salary was $82,004, as well as $77,000 a year in his post-retirement job as secretary for the Commissioners of the Land Office, a state agency that manages school land trust funds used for the upkeep of schools in the state. Read the entire story here.