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Former state school employee Carelli paid in $47K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.83M in retirement

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Former state school employee Carol Carelli, who retired in June 2016, saved $46,606 toward a pension over 29 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Carelli would collect as much as $2.83 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes West Cook News.

The projection assumes Carelli received $59,413 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 1 years of retirement, Carelli will have already received $59,413 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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