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Former state university employee Garcia paid in $94K to pension fund, could collect $1.45M in retirement

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Former state university employee David Garcia, who retired in January 2019, saved $94,268 toward a pension over 26 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Garcia would collect as much as $1.45 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Garcia received $30,396 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Garcia will have already received $127,165 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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