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Friday, July 4, 2025

Former state school employee Marcell paid in $93K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.71M in retirement

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Former state school employee Barclay Marcell, who retired in June 2017, saved $93,306 toward a pension over 18 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Marcell would collect as much as $1.71 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Marcell received $35,841 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Marcell will have already received $110,780 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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