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Former school nurse Dixon paid in $130K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.27M in retirement

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Former school nurse Sylvia Dixon, who retired in August 2018, saved $130,045 toward a pension over 24 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Dixon would collect as much as $2.27 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Dixon received $47,641 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Dixon will have already received $147,253 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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