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South Central Reporter

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Former state school employee Comer paid in $128K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.84M in retirement

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Former state school employee Randy Comer, who retired in May 2017, saved $128,193 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, Comer would collect as much as $2.84 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Central Reporter.

The projection assumes Comer received $59,609 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Comer will have already received $184,245 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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