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Former state university employee Virgil Thomas paid in $1K to pension fund, could collect $77K in retirement

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Former state university employee Sabra Virgil Thomas, who retired in September 2017, saved $1,344 toward a pension over 1 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Virgil Thomas would collect as much as $77,072, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Virgil Thomas received $1,620 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 1 years of retirement, Virgil Thomas will have already received $1,620 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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