2005 Washington Revised Code RCW 41.16.080: Retirement for service.

Any fireman employed in a fire department on and before the first day of January, 1947, hereinafter in this section and RCW 41.16.090 to 41.16.190 inclusive, referred to as "fireman", and who shall have served twenty-five or more years and having attained the age of fifty-five years, as a member of the fire department, shall be eligible for retirement and shall be retired by the board upon his written request. Upon his retirement any fireman shall be paid a pension based upon the average monthly salary drawn for the five calendar years before retirement, the number of years of his service and a percentage factor based upon his age on entering service, as follows:




Entrance age at			Salary
last birthday			percentage factor
20	and under . . . . . . . . . . . .			1.50%
21	. . . . . . . . . . . .			1.55%
22	. . . . . . . . . . . .			1.60%
23	. . . . . . . . . . . .			1.65%
24	. . . . . . . . . . . .			1.70%
25	. . . . . . . . . . . .			1.75%
26	. . . . . . . . . . . .			1.80%
27	. . . . . . . . . . . .			1.85%
28	. . . . . . . . . . . .			1.90%
29	. . . . . . . . . . . .			1.95%
30	and over . . . . . . . . . . . .			2.00%


     Said monthly pension shall be in the amount of his average monthly salary for the five calendar years before retirement, times the number of years of service, times the applicable percentage factor.

[1959 c 5 § 2; 1957 c 82 § 2. Prior: 1947 c 91 § 8, part; 1935 c 39 § 2, part; 1929 c 86 § 2, part; 1919 c 196 § 4, part; 1909 c 50 § 4, part; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 9578-47, part.]