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Former special education worker McDermott paid in $72K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.07M in retirement

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Former special education worker Mark McDermott, who retired in January 2019, saved $71,775 toward a pension over 11 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, McDermott would collect as much as $1.07 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes McDermott received $22,505 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, McDermott will have already received $94,151 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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