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Monday, August 4, 2025

Former teacher Salzman paid in $87K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.21M in retirement

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Former teacher Dale Salzman, who retired in September 2018, saved $86,679 toward a pension over 13 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Salzman would collect as much as $1.21 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Salzman received $25,350 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Salzman will have already received $106,056 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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