Quantcast

North Cook News

Friday, June 20, 2025

Former state school employee Peters paid in $233K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $5.05M in retirement

Money 08

Former state school employee Christine Peters, who retired in May 2016, saved $232,503 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, Peters would collect as much as $5.05 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Peters received $106,202 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Peters will have already received $328,260 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

MORE NEWS