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Former state university employee Guggenheim paid in $67K to pension fund, could collect $4.01M in retirement

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Former state university employee Stephen Guggenheim, who retired in September 2016, saved $67,366 toward a pension over 18 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Guggenheim would collect as much as $4.01 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Guggenheim received $84,329 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 1 years of retirement, Guggenheim will have already received $84,329 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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