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Former state school employee Byrne paid in $334K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $5.37M in retirement

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Former state school employee John Byrne, who retired in June 2016, saved $334,135 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, Byrne would collect as much as $5.37 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Byrne received $112,883 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Byrne will have already received $348,909 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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