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Former state school employee Jere paid in $214K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.14M in retirement

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Former state school employee Gina Jere, who retired in June 2017, saved $213,726 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, Jere would collect as much as $4.14 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Jere received $87,089 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Jere will have already received $269,184 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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