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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Former state school employee Knier paid in $262K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $5.69M in retirement

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Former state school employee Linda Knier, who retired in June 2018, saved $262,039 toward a pension over 31 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Knier would collect as much as $5.69 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Knier received $119,561 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Knier will have already received $369,551 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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