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Former state school employee Gialamas paid in $34K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $935K in retirement

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Former state school employee Christine Gialamas, who retired in October 2017, saved $33,599 toward a pension over 11 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Gialamas would collect as much as $934,953, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Gialamas received $19,652 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Gialamas will have already received $39,894 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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