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Former state university employee Meyer paid in $32K to pension fund, could collect $461K in retirement

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Former state university employee James Meyer, who retired in August 2017, saved $31,954 toward a pension over 6 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Meyer would collect as much as $460,874, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chambana Sun.

The projection assumes Meyer received $9,687 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Meyer will have already received $40,527 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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