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Former state school employee Hilden paid in $107K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.66M in retirement

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Former state school employee Mary Hilden, who retired in June 2017, saved $106,979 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, Hilden would collect as much as $1.66 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Hilden received $34,858 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Hilden will have already received $107,743 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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