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Former state school employee Carr paid in $130K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.55M in retirement

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Former state school employee Ellen Carr, who retired in July 2017, saved $130,494 toward a pension over 26 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Carr would collect as much as $2.55 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Carr received $53,662 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Carr will have already received $165,864 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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