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Former state university employee Lowman paid in $80K to pension fund, could collect $1.39M in retirement

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Former state university employee Roy Lowman, who retired in March 2017, saved $79,755 toward a pension over 19 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Lowman would collect as much as $1.39 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Lowman received $29,130 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Lowman will have already received $90,038 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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