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Former state school employee Spiewak paid in $147K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.32M in retirement

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Former state school employee Joseph Spiewak, who retired in May 2017, saved $146,825 toward a pension over 28 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Spiewak would collect as much as $2.32 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DeKalb Times.

The projection assumes Spiewak received $48,705 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Spiewak will have already received $150,542 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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