It depends on what type of gov employee, what you do, how generous your pension is, and when you can collect it.
It's a sliding scale of hatred.
Scientist. One percent of my average salary over three consecutive years of employment times my total years of public service, and at age 62.
How much do you hate me?
I don't hate you. I was trying to be a bit tongue in cheek. I know that pensions vary quite a bit. (I remember joining the Navy right when they were making pension changes. I didn't stay in long enough to get a pension, and opted not to switch to the GS civilian crew also.)
But locally, for example, you can retire from the Sheriff's dept or the police force at 50 with 100% of your highest year's salary. Including overtime. So the closer you get to 50, the more overtime they give you. We have many retired folks who are retired and pulling 100% of their highest salary for decades. Just a quick search of pensions in my county from 2014 (most recent year) found 7 retired sheriffs making > $175,000 in pension, per year. Plus benefits. Year of retirements? Starting in 2001. (Plus a few thousand in benefits.) Overall there are 13 retired Sheriffs making an average of $170,000 a year, times...20 years? That's 44 million dollars. $2.2M a year. Gee I wonder why we have a budget shortfall.
I only pick on Sheriffs because my friend and neighbor's brother is one (retired), and she was describing his pension to me this weekend. One of the professors at the university that I happen to know retired 11 years ago and has made between $170k and $215k every year for the last 5 years. Probably the first few were a little less. Another prof I know (who is not retired), started putting money into a 401k. He's in his 50s and said "yeah, there is NO WAY this is sustainable."
Edited to add: The military's gravy train is also interesting to me. Similarly seems maybe a bit generous, depending on the person. I have a hometown friend who is relatively conservative, and she is very anti single-payer or Obamacare because "you need to work for your benefits" and "get a better job if you don't have benefits". Which, you know, on some level I respect (except for the fact that there aren't enough jobs that provide benefits compared to the number of people who need them.)
But anyway, I could at least understand that whole attitude UNTIL I realized that her wife (who was in the military) was discharged for medical reasons and has VA medical! (Obviously most people who get out of the military after 1-2 tours do not qualify. I do not know why she qualified, she got out in her 20s.) So, you are WELCOME for those two CHILDBIRTHS that were paid for by TAX DOLLARS.