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Former state school employee Clay paid in $48K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $668K in retirement

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Former state school employee Raymond Clay, who retired in June 2017, saved $48,181 toward a pension over 10 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Clay would collect as much as $667,564, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Clay received $14,031 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Clay will have already received $58,702 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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