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Monday, July 14, 2025

Former state school employee Staley paid in $112K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.7M in retirement

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Former state school employee Joni Staley, who retired in May 2018, saved $112,376 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, Staley would collect as much as $2.7 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes East Central Reporter.

The projection assumes Staley received $56,801 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Staley will have already received $115,306 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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