Article updated: 9/12/2012 5:25 AM

Township assessors get $3,000 bonus for doing job right

Performance stipend costs taxpayers $650,000 a year

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Fremont Township Assessor Ed Sullivan, who also is a state legislator, says state stipends paid to township assessors could be eliminated.

Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer

Fremont Township Assessor Ed Sullivan, who also is a state legislator, says state stipends paid to township assessors could be eliminated.

Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer

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Nearly 900 township assessors and county assessment officials in Illinois are eligible for a $3,000 yearly bonus — just for doing their jobs right. The "performance stipend" costs taxpayers upward of $650,000 a year in a state that's so broke it's at least $5.8 billion behind in paying its bills. "I think that's something that's going to be phased out," said state Rep. Ed Sullivan, a Mundelein Republican who is also assessor in Lake County's Fremont Township and who has not received the bonus in any of the last three years.

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