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Former state university employee Northcraft paid in $439K to pension fund, could collect $9.86M in retirement

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Former state university employee Gregory Northcraft, who retired in July 2016, saved $438,577 toward a pension over 22 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Northcraft would collect as much as $9.86 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Northcraft received $207,167 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Northcraft will have already received $640,332 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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