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Former state school employee Mechanic paid in $140K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.13M in retirement

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Former state school employee Ilyse Mechanic, who retired in June 2016, saved $139,896 toward a pension over 30 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Mechanic would collect as much as $3.13 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Mechanic received $65,725 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Mechanic will have already received $203,150 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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