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Monday, August 4, 2025

Former teacher Shirley paid in $58K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $992K in retirement

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Former teacher Valerie Shirley, who retired in June 2018, saved $57,858 toward a pension over 13 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Shirley would collect as much as $992,449, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Shirley received $20,860 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Shirley will have already received $64,477 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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