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East Central Reporter

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Former state school employee Wood paid in $107K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.4M in retirement

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Former state school employee Gale Wood, who retired in May 2016, saved $107,473 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, Wood would collect as much as $2.4 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes East Central Reporter.

The projection assumes Wood received $50,522 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Wood will have already received $156,159 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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