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Monday, December 23, 2024

Former teacher Ochoa paid in $165K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.75M in retirement

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Former teacher Mark Ochoa, who retired in August 2016, saved $164,505 toward a pension over 25 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Ochoa would collect as much as $3.75 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Ochoa received $78,823 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Ochoa will have already received $243,635 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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