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Former state university employee Smith paid in $78K to pension fund, could collect $1.94M in retirement

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Former state university employee Edward Smith, who retired in September 2016, saved $78,021 toward a pension over 23 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Smith would collect as much as $1.94 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chambana Sun.

The projection assumes Smith received $40,821 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Smith will have already received $82,867 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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