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Former state university employee Giles Johnson paid in $79K to pension fund, could collect $1.33M in retirement

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Former state university employee Rose Giles Johnson, who retired in June 2017, saved $79,200 toward a pension over 16 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Giles Johnson would collect as much as $1.33 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Giles Johnson received $27,965 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Giles Johnson will have already received $86,437 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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