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Former state school employee Satkowski paid in $135K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.31M in retirement

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Former state school employee Janet Satkowski, who retired in May 2016, saved $135,172 toward a pension over 27 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Satkowski would collect as much as $2.31 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Satkowski received $48,541 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Satkowski will have already received $150,035 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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