Former state school employee Reckmeyer paid in $168K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.68M in retirement

By Local Labs News Service

Jul 1, 2016

Former state school employee Sarah Reckmeyer, who retired in June 2016, saved $168,237 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Reckmeyer would collect as much as $3.68 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Illinois Valley Times.

The projection assumes Reckmeyer received $77,421 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Reckmeyer will have already received $239,301 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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