Kane County Reporter

Former state school employee Patricia Gonzalez Martinez, who retired in June 2018, saved $166,217 toward a pension over 22 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Gonzalez Martinez would collect as much as $2.6 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Kane County Reporter.

The projection assumes Gonzalez Martinez received $54,633 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Gonzalez Martinez will have already received $168,865 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.