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Former state school employee Sherman paid in $10K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $620K in retirement

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Former state school employee Carol Sherman, who retired in November 2017, saved $10,299 toward a pension over 9 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Sherman would collect as much as $619,734, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DeKalb Times.

The projection assumes Sherman received $13,026 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 1 years of retirement, Sherman will have already received $13,026 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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