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Monday, April 28, 2025

Former state school employee Geiger paid in $136K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.85M in retirement

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Former state school employee William Geiger, who retired in May 2017, saved $135,557 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, Geiger would collect as much as $2.85 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Geiger received $59,924 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Geiger will have already received $185,220 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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