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Former state school employee Gitersonke paid in $100K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.59M in retirement

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Former state school employee Bonnie Gitersonke, who retired in May 2017, saved $99,821 toward a pension over 21 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Gitersonke would collect as much as $1.59 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Gitersonke received $33,462 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Gitersonke will have already received $103,428 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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