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Former substitute teacher King paid in $5K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $228K in retirement

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Former substitute teacher Pamela King, who retired in November 2018, saved $5,305 toward a pension over 3 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, King would collect as much as $227,680, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes King received $4,785 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, King will have already received $9,714 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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