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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Former state school employee Major paid in $180K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.79M in retirement

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Former state school employee Robert Major, who retired in February 2016, saved $180,141 toward a pension over 26 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Major would collect as much as $2.79 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Major received $58,631 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Major will have already received $181,223 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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