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Lake County Gazette

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Former state school employee Johnson paid in $261K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $5.38M in retirement

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Former state school employee Andrea Johnson, who retired in September 2017, saved $260,776 toward a pension over 25 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Johnson would collect as much as $5.38 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Johnson received $113,052 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Johnson will have already received $349,433 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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