§ 50870 Firefighter Retirement Pension

• •If you work as a firefighter for 20 years and reach age 60, you can retire.
• •Once retired, you get paid half of your yearly salary for the rest of your life.
• •The salary used for this payment is based on what you earned in your last year of work.

A firefighter named John has worked for 20 years and just turned 60. He decides to retire.

John will stop working and start getting a pension. If his salary last year was $60,000, he will now get $30,000 every year for the rest of his life.