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Sunday, September 29, 2024

Former state school employee Bailey paid in $178K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.47M in retirement

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Former state school employee Sharon Bailey, who retired in December 2016, saved $178,489 toward a pension over 42 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Bailey would collect as much as $3.47 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Bailey received $72,835 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Bailey will have already received $225,126 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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