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Former state university employee Wagner paid in $31K to pension fund, could collect $490K in retirement

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Former state university employee Christian Wagner, who retired in February 2018, saved $30,516 toward a pension over 10 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Wagner would collect as much as $490,407, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chambana Sun.

The projection assumes Wagner received $10,308 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Wagner will have already received $31,861 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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