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Former state school employee Bostrom paid in $88K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.49M in retirement

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Former state school employee Barbara Bostrom, who retired in May 2017, saved $87,704 toward a pension over 16 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Bostrom would collect as much as $1.49 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DuPage Policy Journal.

The projection assumes Bostrom received $31,377 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Bostrom will have already received $96,983 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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