Former state school employee Katahira paid in $187K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $5.14M in retirement

By Local Labs News Service

Jul 1, 2016

Former state school employee Russell Katahira, who retired in June 2016, saved $186,827 toward a pension over 38 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Katahira would collect as much as $5.14 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Katahira received $107,934 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Katahira will have already received $219,106 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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