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Former state school employee Dixon paid in $134K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.62M in retirement

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Former state school employee Alecia Dixon, who retired in May 2018, saved $134,086 toward a pension over 32 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Dixon would collect as much as $2.62 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Dixon received $55,095 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Dixon will have already received $170,293 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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