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Former state university employee Parker paid in $63K to pension fund, could collect $1.28M in retirement

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Former state university employee Carol Parker, who retired in June 2018, saved $63,061 toward a pension over 23 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Parker would collect as much as $1.28 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Parker received $26,958 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Parker will have already received $83,325 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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