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Former state university employee Cumbow paid in $179K to pension fund, could collect $4.08M in retirement

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Former state university employee Mark Cumbow, who retired in October 2016, saved $179,001 toward a pension over 33 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Cumbow would collect as much as $4.08 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Cumbow received $85,837 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Cumbow will have already received $265,313 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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