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Former state school employee Hernandez paid in $185K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.4M in retirement

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Former state school employee Eduardo Hernandez, who retired in June 2017, saved $185,239 toward a pension over 34 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Hernandez would collect as much as $3.4 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Hernandez received $71,558 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Hernandez will have already received $221,179 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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