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Former special education worker Sykes paid in $151K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.29M in retirement

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Former special education worker Cynthia Sykes, who retired in October 2018, saved $150,870 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Sykes 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 Sykes received $69,103 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Sykes will have already received $213,590 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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