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Former state university employee Dowell paid in $78K to pension fund, could collect $1.6M in retirement

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Former state university employee Belvie Dowell, who retired in April 2019, saved $77,947 toward a pension over 27 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Dowell would collect as much as $1.6 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Dowell received $33,540 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Dowell will have already received $103,668 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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