Metro East Sun

Former state school employee Carol Francis Jorns, who retired in May 2018, saved $202,370 toward a pension over 34 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Francis Jorns would collect as much as $4.3 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Francis Jorns received $90,469 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Francis Jorns will have already received $279,630 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.