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Former state university employee Pineda paid in $102K to pension fund, could collect $2.42M in retirement

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Former state university employee Olga Pineda, who retired in August 2018, saved $102,484 toward a pension over 34 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Pineda would collect as much as $2.42 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Pineda received $50,919 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Pineda will have already received $103,366 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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