JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- In the upcoming city budget, Mayor John Peyton has to find more than $108 million just to fund the city pension plan for one year.

The biggest part of that deals with police and fire pensions.

Even just mentioning the possibility of messing with those pensions has caused quite an uproar.

Channel 4's Jim Piggott did some checking to see just how much money some retired police and firefighters are making.

In fact, he looked at the top five on the list, which looks as follows:

No. 1 is former Fire Chief Richard Barrett. His yearly pension check is over six figures at more than $118,000.

You might be surprised at the No. 2 person in line.

It's Sheriff John Rutherford. Rutherford retired from the JSO before running for sheriff, an elected position.

Each year he gets more than $108,000 from the pension fund. And that's just his city pension. As sheriff, he is also currently being paid, on top of his pension, $157,000 a year in salary.

And he'll get another pension check from the state based on his years as Sheriff. Channel 4 sat down with the sheriff and asked him about this.

"I worked very hard for that money, and I deserve that retirement," sheriff John Rutherford said. "Running for sheriff was not about money. It was about serving this community, and at great expenses to my family, I might add. I walked away from the drop plan."

On the heals of Rutherford is former Sheriff Jim McMillan. For his 29 years of service, he too takes home a six-figure salary at $108,000 a year.

He's followed by former Fire Chief Charles Clark at $107,000, and at No. 5 is Ray Miley, who worked 32 years with the sheriff's department. His yearly pension is also $107,000.

Further down the list is former Sheriff Nat Glover. He takes home more than $89,000 a year from a city pension. But he is doing something different and is donating that money to charity.

Peyton said the city needs pension reform. He wants to make major changes to pension plans for new employees.

"That is why I'm optimistic this plan will be adopted because it does not impact current employees," Peyton said. "It's only new hires and saves close to a billion three in the next thirty years."