Top 50 Former School District Superintendents With the Biggest Pensions

Each year, Taxpayers United of America, a Chicago-based organization that advocates for pension reform and tax relief, releases a list of the Top 200 government pensions in Illinois, or those topping $200,000 annually.

Of the 200 individuals receiving the biggest pension payouts in the state, 81 are members of the Teachers’ Retirement System and receive a combined average annual pension of $229,256. For some context, the average pension in TRS is $51,288.

Using the most recent available data from TUA, which was obtained from TRS through the Freedom of Information Act, we’ve updated our previous list of the Top 50 biggest pensioners in TRS, most of whom are former school district superintendents.

We’ve included each pensioner’s former employer and the year in which they retired. The TUA’s calculation for estimated lifetime pension payout assumes a life expectancy of 85 and factors in the 3 percent compounded cost of living adjustment, which TRS previously has refuted.

Here are the Top 50 former school district superintendents with the biggest pension payouts.

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