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Former state school employee Boyko paid in $95K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.89M in retirement

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Former state school employee Joan Boyko, who retired in June 2016, saved $95,096 toward a pension over 24 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Boyko would collect as much as $1.89 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Boyko received $39,636 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Boyko will have already received $122,511 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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