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Former state university employee Price paid in $97K to pension fund, could collect $1.76M in retirement

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Former state university employee Steven Price, who retired in January 2016, saved $97,098 toward a pension over 21 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Price would collect as much as $1.76 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Price received $37,005 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Price will have already received $114,378 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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