One of the questions I was asked was how many UFT members are in the various tiers. Below is a table that shows the various Tiers and the percentages of in-service UFT members which includes teachers, paras, guidance counselors, and Social Workers. The total amount of UFT represented in-service members is approximately 127,500.
To play the Tier VI game read my post Here.
Tier.......Number.......Percentage
I..............195..............1.5%
II..............81...............0.6%
III..........1,200.............0.9%
IV.........78,000..........61.2%
VI.........48,000..........37.7%,
Tier III members almost always end up in Tier IV since Tier III requires a Social Security checkoff off $1 for every $2 dollars of pension benefits.
Tier IV has different iterations, depending when the educator joined the NYC school system Here.
There is no Tier V for UFT members..