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Friday, July 4, 2025

Former special education worker Pleasant Gibson paid in $129K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.37M in retirement

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Former special education worker Pamela Pleasant Gibson, who retired in June 2016, saved $129,414 toward a pension over 32 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Pleasant Gibson would collect as much as $2.37 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Pleasant Gibson received $49,776 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Pleasant Gibson will have already received $153,852 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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