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Former state school employee Johnson paid in $129K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.35M in retirement

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Former state school employee Kathleen Johnson, who retired in May 2018, saved $128,650 toward a pension over 27 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Johnson would collect as much as $2.35 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Johnson received $49,413 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Johnson will have already received $152,730 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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