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Carbondale Reporter

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Former state school employee Osborn paid in $85K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.39M in retirement

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Former state school employee Mary Osborn, who retired in May 2016, saved $85,404 toward a pension over 18 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Osborn would collect as much as $1.39 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Osborn received $29,233 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Osborn will have already received $90,356 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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