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Former state school employee Whitten Carey paid in $159K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.63M in retirement

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Former state school employee Catherine Whitten Carey, who retired in June 2017, saved $158,786 toward a pension over 24 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Whitten Carey would collect as much as $2.63 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes West Cook News.

The projection assumes Whitten Carey received $55,236 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Whitten Carey will have already received $170,729 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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