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Former state university employee Vance paid in $65K to pension fund, could collect $1.31M in retirement

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Former state university employee Sarah Vance, who retired in January 2019, saved $64,858 toward a pension over 31 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Vance would collect as much as $1.31 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Vance received $27,444 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Vance will have already received $84,826 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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