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Former state school employee Peterson paid in $148K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.04M in retirement

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Former state school employee Pamela Peterson, who retired in June 2016, saved $147,643 toward a pension over 30 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Peterson would collect as much as $3.04 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Peterson received $63,870 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Peterson will have already received $197,416 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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