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Former state school employee Murphy paid in $16K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $343K in retirement

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Former state school employee Thomas Murphy, who retired in May 2017, saved $15,551 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, Murphy would collect as much as $343,222, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Murphy received $7,214 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Murphy will have already received $22,297 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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