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Former state school employee Duerksen paid in $67K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.13M in retirement

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Former state school employee D. Duerksen, who retired in May 2018, saved $67,448 toward a pension over 20 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Duerksen would collect as much as $1.13 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes NW Illinois News.

The projection assumes Duerksen received $23,816 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Duerksen will have already received $73,612 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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