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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Former state school employee Golby paid in $156K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.89M in retirement

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Former state school employee Martin Golby, who retired in June 2016, saved $156,420 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, Golby would collect as much as $3.89 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Rock Island Today.

The projection assumes Golby received $81,663 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Golby will have already received $165,776 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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