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Former state school employee Zdeb paid in $129K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.7M in retirement

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Former state school employee Anthony Zdeb, who retired in May 2016, saved $129,213 toward a pension over 30 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Zdeb would collect as much as $2.7 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Rockford Sun.

The projection assumes Zdeb received $56,807 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Zdeb will have already received $175,584 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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