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Former state university employee Fields paid in $65K to pension fund, could collect $1.67M in retirement

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Former state university employee Robert Fields, who retired in July 2018, saved $64,923 toward a pension over 29 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Fields would collect as much as $1.67 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Fields received $35,025 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Fields will have already received $71,101 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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