Prairie State Wire

Former state school employee Robert Kroll, who retired in March 2018, saved $54,101 toward a pension over 10 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Kroll would collect as much as $798,033, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Prairie State Wire.

The projection assumes Kroll received $16,774 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Kroll will have already received $70,175 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.