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Former state university employee Monroe paid in $27K to pension fund, could collect $427K in retirement

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Former state university employee Robert Monroe, who retired in May 2017, saved $27,366 toward a pension over 15 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Monroe would collect as much as $426,660, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chambana Sun.

The projection assumes Monroe received $8,968 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Monroe will have already received $27,719 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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