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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Former teacher Steele paid in $72K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.04M in retirement

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Former teacher Gretchen Steele, who retired in March 2017, saved $72,484 toward a pension over 12 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Steele would collect as much as $1.04 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Steele received $21,869 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Steele will have already received $91,492 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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