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Former state school employee Browning paid in $155K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.21M in retirement

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Former state school employee Joan Browning, who retired in May 2017, saved $154,899 toward a pension over 26 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Browning would collect as much as $3.21 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Browning received $67,533 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Browning will have already received $208,738 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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