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Saturday, August 23, 2025

Former state school employee Pry paid in $157K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.62M in retirement

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Former state school employee Tamara Pry, who retired in May 2017, saved $157,460 toward a pension over 34 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Pry would collect as much as $3.62 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DuPage Policy Journal.

The projection assumes Pry received $76,008 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Pry will have already received $234,933 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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