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Former school nurse Tyrrell paid in $138K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.5M in retirement

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Former school nurse Mary Tyrrell, who retired in July 2018, saved $138,277 toward a pension over 27 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Tyrrell would collect as much as $2.5 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Tyrrell received $52,523 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Tyrrell will have already received $162,344 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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