Former state school employee Zellers paid in $98K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.99M in retirement

By Local Labs News Service

Jul 1, 2016

Former state school employee Gail Zellers, who retired in June 2016, saved $98,292 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, Zellers would collect as much as $1.99 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Zellers received $41,742 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Zellers will have already received $129,020 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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