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Saturday, September 27, 2025

Former substitute teacher Washington paid in $150K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.85M in retirement

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Former substitute teacher Joseph Washington, who retired in March 2016, saved $150,195 toward a pension over 26 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Washington would collect as much as $2.85 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Washington received $59,835 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Washington will have already received $184,944 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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