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Of these, nearly 2,000 have federal pensions that pay $125,000 or more annually, and 151 take home $150,000 or more. Six federal retirees get more than $200,000 a year. Some 1.2 percent of federal retirees collect six-figure pensions. By comparison, 0.1 percent of military retirees collect as much.
They were receiving an average annual pension of $60,972. Thatâs a fraction of the current salary for rank and file House and Senate members, which is $165,200 per year. The pensions of the 143 former members who retired under the newer Federal Employeesâ Retirement System (FERS) average even less.rior to 1984, members of Congress were covered only by a separate Civil Service Retirement System that was criticized as being overly generous. They did not pay Social Security taxes and received no Social Security retirement credit for their time in office.