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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Former state school employee Katolick paid in $173K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.51M in retirement

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Former state school employee Karen Katolick, who retired in June 2016, saved $172,646 toward a pension over 30 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Katolick would collect as much as $3.51 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes West Cook News.

The projection assumes Katolick received $73,762 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Katolick will have already received $227,991 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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