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Sunday, April 27, 2025

Former state school employee Small paid in $276K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $6.47M in retirement

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Former state school employee Robert Small, who retired in July 2017, saved $275,628 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, Small would collect as much as $6.47 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Small received $135,921 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Small will have already received $275,920 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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