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Saturday, June 7, 2025

Former state school employee Lay paid in $94K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.62M in retirement

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Former state school employee Thomas Lay, who retired in May 2017, saved $93,590 toward a pension over 26 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Lay would collect as much as $1.62 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes McHenry Times.

The projection assumes Lay received $34,090 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Lay will have already received $105,369 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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