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Former state university employee Spencer paid in $43K to pension fund, could collect $721K in retirement

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Former state university employee Deborah Spencer, who retired in March 2017, saved $42,604 toward a pension over 16 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Spencer would collect as much as $720,967, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Spencer received $15,154 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Spencer will have already received $46,840 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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