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Former state university employee Loth paid in $171K to pension fund, could collect $3.71M in retirement

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Former state university employee Eric Loth, who retired in September 2016, saved $171,154 toward a pension over 21 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Loth would collect as much as $3.71 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Loth received $77,939 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Loth will have already received $240,901 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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