I'm 'lucky' I guess in that I lost my hearing from my job and they buy them for me at 7,000 a pop. But I have bought them from americahears.com. Many people at Hearing Aid Forums | Hearing Loss | Hearing Aids - Powered by vBulletin recommend them, but they like costco as well. Costco aids are...
True in the sense of salary and retirement, although they can negotiate about some fairly petty rules such as compressed work schedules.
As a point of reference all new fed employees since the mid 1980's get 1% per year of service (high 3, partially indexed for inflation) in a defined benefit...