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Former state school employee Carey paid in $199K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.29M in retirement

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Former state school employee Shelley Carey, who retired in July 2016, saved $199,417 toward a pension over 19 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Carey would collect as much as $3.29 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Carey received $69,109 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Carey will have already received $213,608 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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