Right, all I was pointing out was that you forgot to add pay increases into the working controller's final salary but you gave COLA to the retired controller. Even at the top of the pay band the working controller's pay would shift up as the top of the pay band shifted up, and therefore his pension multiplier would be multiplied against a higher amount. The working controller still wouldn't be making $150k nine years later. Put differently, it's highly unlikely that the working controller's federal pay would remain frozen for nine years while the retiree still got COLA during those nine years. Even under the White Book (assuming it had been in effect for nine years) I don't believe it was that extreme, but correct me if I'm wrong. Was there ever a time in ATC history where someone remaining at the same facility made the same dollar amount over nine consecutive years?