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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Former state school employee Geiger paid in $61K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.04M in retirement

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Former state school employee Patricia Geiger, who retired in June 2018, saved $61,074 toward a pension over 19 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

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

The projection assumes Geiger received $21,854 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Geiger will have already received $67,549 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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