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Sunday, June 29, 2025

Former state school employee Davis paid in $197K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.4M in retirement

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Former state school employee Jay Davis, who retired in June 2016, saved $196,652 toward a pension over 38 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Davis would collect as much as $4.4 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Davis received $92,488 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Davis will have already received $285,872 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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