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Saturday, May 17, 2025

Former state school employee Pearson paid in $101K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.04M in retirement

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Former state school employee Linda Pearson, who retired in June 2016, saved $101,200 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Pearson would collect as much as $2.04 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes West Central Reporter.

The projection assumes Pearson received $42,980 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Pearson will have already received $132,846 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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