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Former state school employee Pitts paid in $122K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.8M in retirement

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Former state school employee Sharen Pitts, who retired in June 2016, saved $121,883 toward a pension over 16 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Pitts would collect as much as $1.8 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes West Cook News.

The projection assumes Pitts received $37,911 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Pitts will have already received $158,604 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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