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Former state university employee Scott paid in $134K to pension fund, could collect $2.5M in retirement

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Former state university employee Ernest Scott, who retired in January 2019, saved $133,682 toward a pension over 28 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Scott would collect as much as $2.5 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Scott received $52,632 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Scott will have already received $162,680 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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