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Saturday, August 2, 2025

Former teacher Zavitkovsky paid in $123K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.05M in retirement

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Former teacher Paul Zavitkovsky, who retired in March 2019, saved $123,090 toward a pension over 17 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Zavitkovsky would collect as much as $2.05 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Zavitkovsky received $43,021 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Zavitkovsky will have already received $132,974 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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