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Thursday, April 3, 2025

Former state school employee McLaughlin paid in $170K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.41M in retirement

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Former state school employee Julie McLaughlin, who retired in September 2016, saved $169,543 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, McLaughlin would collect as much as $2.41 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Quincy Reporter.

The projection assumes McLaughlin received $50,742 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, McLaughlin will have already received $212,285 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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