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Former state school employee Schoenberg paid in $138K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.19M in retirement

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Former state school employee Sally Schoenberg, who retired in June 2018, saved $138,087 toward a pension over 26 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Schoenberg would collect as much as $3.19 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Schoenberg received $67,109 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Schoenberg will have already received $207,427 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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