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Former state university employee Newman paid in $37K to pension fund, could collect $2.08M in retirement

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Former state university employee Harry Newman, who retired in July 2018, saved $36,990 toward a pension over 7 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Newman would collect as much as $2.08 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Newman received $43,643 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 1 years of retirement, Newman will have already received $43,643 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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