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Carbondale Reporter

Monday, July 21, 2025

Former state school employee Crites paid in $9K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $506K in retirement

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Former state school employee Mary Crites, who retired in August 2018, saved $8,699 toward a pension over 6 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Crites would collect as much as $505,627, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Crites received $10,627 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 1 years of retirement, Crites will have already received $10,627 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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