Former state school employee Dumolyn paid in $147K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.93M in retirement

Former state school employee Marcella Dumolyn, who retired in June 2017, saved $147,174 toward a pension over 33 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Dumolyn would collect as much as $2.93 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DuPage Policy Journal.

The projection assumes Dumolyn received $61,535 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Dumolyn will have already received $190,198 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.