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Monday, June 17, 2024

Former state school employee Dowling paid in $304K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $7.68M in retirement

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Former state school employee Michelle Dowling, who retired in June 2018, saved $303,808 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, Dowling would collect as much as $7.68 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Dowling received $161,402 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Dowling will have already received $327,646 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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