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Former state school employee Dougherty paid in $87K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.34M in retirement

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Former state school employee Janice Dougherty, who retired in June 2017, saved $87,319 toward a pension over 15 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Dougherty would collect as much as $1.34 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Dougherty received $28,150 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Dougherty will have already received $117,771 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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