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Former school counselor Lulinski paid in $171K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.29M in retirement

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Former school counselor Marianne Lulinski, who retired in November 2018, saved $171,261 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Lulinski would collect as much as $3.29 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Lulinski received $69,081 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Lulinski will have already received $213,522 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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