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Former state school employee Kessel paid in $167K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.22M in retirement

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Former state school employee Julia Kessel, who retired in June 2018, saved $166,914 toward a pension over 19 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Kessel would collect as much as $3.22 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Kessel received $67,667 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Kessel will have already received $209,152 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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