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Former principal Farr paid in $216K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $5.05M in retirement

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Former principal Kathy Farr, who retired in October 2018, saved $215,924 toward a pension over 34 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Farr would collect as much as $5.05 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Farr received $106,156 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Farr will have already received $328,118 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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