Meanwhile year - long exposes by newspapers such as the Sacramento Bee into the high cost of so - called pension spiking, or the practice of allowing
teachers and bureaucrats nearing retirement to get double -
digit pay
raises in their final years of work in order to gain even fatter pensions, has also led to a state investigation, once again reminding families that they pay the price
for 3,090
teachers (as of 2010) getting more than $ 100,000 annually in pension annuities.