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Former school counselor Jones paid in $127K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.77M in retirement

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Former school counselor Carolyn Jones, who retired in October 2016, saved $127,041 toward a pension over 30 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Jones would collect as much as $2.77 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Jones received $58,215 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Jones will have already received $179,936 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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