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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Former teacher Johnson paid in $100K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.9M in retirement

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Former teacher Philomena Johnson, who retired in March 2018, saved $100,193 toward a pension over 21 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Johnson would collect as much as $1.9 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Johnson received $39,899 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Johnson will have already received $123,324 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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