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Former state university employee Kientop paid in $116K to pension fund, could collect $2.07M in retirement

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Former state university employee Gregory Kientop, who retired in June 2017, saved $116,028 toward a pension over 26 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Kientop would collect as much as $2.07 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Kientop received $43,586 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Kientop will have already received $134,721 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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