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Will County Gazette

Monday, April 28, 2025

Former state school employee Novak paid in $179K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.89M in retirement

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Former state school employee John Novak, who retired in May 2017, saved $178,792 toward a pension over 33 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Novak would collect as much as $3.89 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Will County Gazette.

The projection assumes Novak received $81,744 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Novak will have already received $252,662 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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