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Former state university employee Bray paid in $4K to pension fund, could collect $208K in retirement

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Former state university employee Teresa Bray, who retired in June 2016, saved $4,037 toward a pension over 3 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Bray would collect as much as $208,032, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Bray received $4,372 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 1 years of retirement, Bray will have already received $4,372 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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