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Monday, December 23, 2024

Former state school employee Cairo paid in $111K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.1M in retirement

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Former state school employee Jo Anne Cairo, who retired in November 2016, saved $110,615 toward a pension over 23 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Cairo would collect as much as $2.1 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Cairo received $44,199 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Cairo will have already received $136,615 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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