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Former state university employee Gadbury paid in $62K to pension fund, could collect $1.04M in retirement

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Former state university employee Scott Gadbury, who retired in January 2019, saved $61,682 toward a pension over 24 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Gadbury would collect as much as $1.04 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Gadbury received $21,876 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Gadbury will have already received $67,616 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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