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Former state school employee Krol paid in $196K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.63M in retirement

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Former state school employee Robert Krol, who retired in May 2017, saved $195,875 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, Krol would collect as much as $4.63 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DuPage Policy Journal.

The projection assumes Krol received $97,306 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Krol will have already received $197,531 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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