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Former state school employee Young paid in $355K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $6.91M in retirement

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Former state school employee Christopher Young, who retired in June 2016, saved $355,172 toward a pension over 23 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Young would collect as much as $6.91 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Young received $145,144 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Young will have already received $448,625 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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