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Former state school employee Cramer paid in $83K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.51M in retirement

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Former state school employee Shelby Cramer, who retired in June 2018, saved $82,591 toward a pension over 21 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Cramer would collect as much as $1.51 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Will County Gazette.

The projection assumes Cramer received $31,813 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Cramer will have already received $98,330 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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