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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Former state school employee Motley paid in $131K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.44M in retirement

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Former state school employee Kathryn Motley, who retired in May 2017, saved $130,552 toward a pension over 33 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Motley would collect as much as $2.44 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Motley received $51,288 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Motley will have already received $158,527 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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