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Former state university employee Rigsby paid in $101K to pension fund, could collect $2.29M in retirement

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Former state university employee Creola Rigsby, who retired in May 2016, saved $100,917 toward a pension over 22 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Rigsby would collect as much as $2.29 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Rigsby received $48,080 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Rigsby will have already received $148,610 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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