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Former state school employee Barber paid in $250K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $5.3M in retirement

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Former state school employee Beth Barber, who retired in June 2018, saved $249,838 toward a pension over 36 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Barber would collect as much as $5.3 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Barber received $111,392 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Barber will have already received $344,302 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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