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Former state school employee Bailey paid in $201K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.3M in retirement

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Former state school employee Keith Bailey, who retired in June 2018, saved $201,498 toward a pension over 28 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Bailey would collect as much as $4.3 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes West Cook News.

The projection assumes Bailey received $90,417 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Bailey will have already received $279,471 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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