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Lake County Gazette

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Former state school employee Sikora paid in $192K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.73M in retirement

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Former state school employee Sofia Sikora, who retired in June 2018, saved $191,693 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, Sikora would collect as much as $3.73 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Sikora received $78,353 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Sikora will have already received $242,182 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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