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Will County Gazette

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Former state school employee Waters paid in $100K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.17M in retirement

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Former state school employee Gail Waters, who retired in May 2017, saved $99,832 toward a pension over 29 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Waters would collect as much as $2.17 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Will County Gazette.

The projection assumes Waters received $45,700 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Waters will have already received $141,254 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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