Former state school employee Gallagher paid in $154K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.66M in retirement

By Local Labs News Service

Jul 1, 2018

Former state school employee Miriam Gallagher, who retired in June 2018, saved $153,973 toward a pension over 31 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Gallagher would collect as much as $3.66 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Gallagher received $77,001 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Gallagher will have already received $156,312 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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