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Sunday, April 27, 2025

Former state school employee Nemetz paid in $268K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $5.82M in retirement

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Former state school employee Joseph Nemetz, who retired in May 2017, saved $268,128 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Nemetz would collect as much as $5.82 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Nemetz received $122,419 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Nemetz will have already received $378,386 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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