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Former state school employee Opon paid in $161K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.74M in retirement

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Former state school employee Brian Opon, who retired in April 2018, saved $160,542 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Opon would collect as much as $3.74 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes McHenry Times.

The projection assumes Opon received $78,662 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Opon will have already received $243,137 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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