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Former state school employee Mark paid in $117K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.55M in retirement

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Former state school employee Pamela Mark, who retired in June 2016, saved $117,048 toward a pension over 25 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Mark would collect as much as $2.55 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Mark received $53,703 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Mark will have already received $165,990 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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