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Former state university employee Ratulowski paid in $9K to pension fund, could collect $167K in retirement

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Former state university employee Isabel Ratulowski, who retired in December 2016, saved $9,413 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Ratulowski would collect as much as $166,635, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Ratulowski received $3,502 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Ratulowski will have already received $10,824 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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