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Former state university employee Parra paid in $76K to pension fund, could collect $1.78M in retirement

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Former state university employee Connie Parra, who retired in November 2017, saved $75,940 toward a pension over 27 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Parra would collect as much as $1.78 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Parra received $37,315 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Parra will have already received $115,336 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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