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Monday, July 14, 2025

Former teacher Giles paid in $141K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.76M in retirement

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Former teacher Carol Giles, who retired in August 2016, saved $140,868 toward a pension over 30 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Giles would collect as much as $2.76 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Giles received $57,912 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Giles will have already received $178,999 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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