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Former state university employee Cervenka paid in $203K to pension fund, could collect $4.09M in retirement

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Former state university employee Tom Cervenka, who retired in September 2017, saved $203,220 toward a pension over 31 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Cervenka would collect as much as $4.09 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Cervenka received $85,971 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Cervenka will have already received $265,728 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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