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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Former state school employee Wright paid in $75K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.13M in retirement

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Former state school employee Charles Wright, who retired in May 2018, saved $75,052 toward a pension over 20 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Wright would collect as much as $1.13 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Peoria Standard.

The projection assumes Wright received $23,791 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Wright will have already received $99,533 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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