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Former state university employee Jones paid in $138K to pension fund, could collect $3.8M in retirement

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Former state university employee Michael Jones, who retired in June 2016, saved $138,262 toward a pension over 30 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Jones would collect as much as $3.8 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Jones received $79,830 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Jones will have already received $162,055 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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