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Former state school employee Hochstetler paid in $120K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.38M in retirement

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Former state school employee Laurel Hochstetler, who retired in June 2016, saved $120,247 toward a pension over 26 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Hochstetler would collect as much as $2.38 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes McHenry Times.

The projection assumes Hochstetler received $49,981 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Hochstetler will have already received $154,485 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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