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Former state school employee McNamara paid in $195K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.43M in retirement

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Former state school employee Joseph McNamara, who retired in July 2017, saved $194,717 toward a pension over 25 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, McNamara would collect as much as $3.43 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes McNamara received $72,190 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, McNamara will have already received $223,133 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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