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Former state school employee Volkert paid in $200K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.24M in retirement

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Former state school employee Kay Volkert, who retired in May 2018, saved $200,025 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Volkert would collect as much as $4.24 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DeKalb Times.

The projection assumes Volkert received $89,184 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Volkert will have already received $275,660 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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