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Friday, April 19, 2024

Former bilingual teacher Sierra paid in $147K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.95M in retirement

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Former bilingual teacher Patricia Sierra, who retired in July 2016, saved $147,215 toward a pension over 34 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Sierra would collect as much as $2.95 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Sierra received $62,041 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Sierra will have already received $191,762 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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