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Former state university employee Carone paid in $33K to pension fund, could collect $1.02M in retirement

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Former state university employee Colleen Carone, who retired in March 2016, saved $32,771 toward a pension over 10 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Carone would collect as much as $1.02 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Carone received $21,450 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Carone will have already received $43,544 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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