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Saturday, October 4, 2025

Former state school employee Pearison paid in $151K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.17M in retirement

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Former state school employee Timothy Pearison, who retired in June 2016, saved $150,914 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Pearison would collect as much as $3.17 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes East Central Reporter.

The projection assumes Pearison received $66,705 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Pearison will have already received $206,178 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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