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Former state school employee Wallace paid in $127K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.81M in retirement

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Former state school employee Sally Wallace, who retired in June 2016, saved $127,272 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, Wallace would collect as much as $2.81 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Wallace received $59,137 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Wallace will have already received $182,786 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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