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Former assistant principal Luster paid in $135K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.6M in retirement

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Former assistant principal Barbara Luster, who retired in October 2018, saved $135,076 toward a pension over 24 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Luster would collect as much as $2.6 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Luster received $54,731 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Luster will have already received $169,168 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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