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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Former state school employee Baker paid in $102K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.78M in retirement

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Former state school employee Karen Baker, who retired in May 2017, saved $101,720 toward a pension over 23 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Baker would collect as much as $1.78 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DeKalb Times.

The projection assumes Baker received $37,378 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Baker will have already received $115,531 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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