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Monday, July 14, 2025

Former state school employee Muenchow paid in $81K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.32M in retirement

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Former state school employee Paul Muenchow, who retired in June 2017, saved $80,725 toward a pension over 17 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Muenchow would collect as much as $1.32 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes West Cook News.

The projection assumes Muenchow received $27,661 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Muenchow will have already received $85,498 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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