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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Former state school employee Rogowski paid in $238K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.94M in retirement

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Former state school employee Thomas Rogowski, who retired in June 2017, saved $238,051 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, Rogowski would collect as much as $4.94 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DuPage Policy Journal.

The projection assumes Rogowski received $103,763 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Rogowski will have already received $320,721 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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