Quantcast

North Cook News

Sunday, April 20, 2025

Former state school employee Matei paid in $225K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.46M in retirement

Shutterstock 385535740

Former state school employee Susan Matei, who retired in June 2016, saved $224,710 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, Matei would collect as much as $3.46 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Matei received $72,742 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Matei will have already received $224,838 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

ORGANIZATIONS IN THIS STORY

!RECEIVE ALERTS

The next time we write about any of these orgs, we’ll email you a link to the story. You may edit your settings or unsubscribe at any time.
Sign-up

DONATE

Help support the Metric Media Foundation's mission to restore community based news.
Donate

MORE NEWS