South Central Reporter

Former state school employee Carla Jourdan Heern, who retired in May 2016, saved $110,095 toward a pension over 33 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Jourdan Heern would collect as much as $1.92 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Central Reporter.

The projection assumes Jourdan Heern received $40,278 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Jourdan Heern will have already received $124,495 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.