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Monday, June 9, 2025

Former state school employee Jones paid in $113K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.76M in retirement

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Former state school employee Sharon Jones, who retired in May 2016, saved $113,220 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Jones would collect as much as $2.76 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes McHenry Times.

The projection assumes Jones received $58,100 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Jones will have already received $117,943 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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