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Former state school employee Haaker paid in $110K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.92M in retirement

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Former state school employee Kathleen Haaker, who retired in June 2018, saved $109,843 toward a pension over 22 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Haaker would collect as much as $1.92 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Haaker received $40,270 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Haaker will have already received $124,470 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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