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Former state school employee Gray paid in $197K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4M in retirement

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Former state school employee Elizabeth Gray, who retired in June 2018, saved $196,864 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Gray would collect as much as $4 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Gray received $84,024 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Gray will have already received $259,710 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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