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Former state school employee Hofschield paid in $172K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.79M in retirement

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Former state school employee Kathryn Hofschield, who retired in June 2018, saved $172,146 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, Hofschield would collect as much as $4.79 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Hofschield received $100,710 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Hofschield will have already received $204,441 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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