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Former state university employee Wood paid in $269K to pension fund, could collect $5.8M in retirement

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Former state university employee Miae Wood, who retired in May 2018, saved $268,626 toward a pension over 30 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Wood would collect as much as $5.8 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Wood received $121,941 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Wood will have already received $376,907 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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