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Former state university employee Dean paid in $62K to pension fund, could collect $1.42M in retirement

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Former state university employee Georgia Dean, who retired in January 2017, saved $62,394 toward a pension over 25 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Dean would collect as much as $1.42 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Dean received $29,776 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Dean will have already received $92,034 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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