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Former state university employee Rankin paid in $83K to pension fund, could collect $1.82M in retirement

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Former state university employee Leslie Rankin, who retired in February 2016, saved $83,422 toward a pension over 30 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Rankin would collect as much as $1.82 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Rankin received $38,235 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Rankin will have already received $118,180 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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