Newport Beach, California, have some lifeguards with compensation packages that exceed $200,000 and where these “civil servants” can retire with lucrative government pensions at age 50.

These lifeguards can retire at age 50 with full medical benefits for life.  One recently retired lifeguard, age 51, receives a government retirement of over $108,000 per year—for the rest of his life.  He will make well over $3 million in retirement if he lives to age 80.  According to the City Manager, a new full-time guard costs less to hire than what is spent on this one retiree.  The city now spends more taxpayer dollars on retired lifeguards than it does on those who are working.