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Carbondale Reporter

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Former state school employee Roe paid in $117K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.38M in retirement

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Former state school employee Cathy Roe, who retired in May 2016, saved $116,873 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, Roe would collect as much as $2.38 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Roe received $49,988 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Roe will have already received $154,509 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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