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Sunday, August 3, 2025

Former high school teacher Prystalski paid in $39K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.8M in retirement

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Former high school teacher Lawrence Prystalski, who retired in September 2018, saved $38,522 toward a pension over 12 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Prystalski would collect as much as $1.8 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Prystalski received $37,838 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Prystalski will have already received $76,811 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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