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Former state school employee Waller paid in $64K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.8M in retirement

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Former state school employee Scott Waller, who retired in January 2018, saved $64,425 toward a pension over 17 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Waller would collect as much as $1.8 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Waller received $37,844 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Waller will have already received $76,823 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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