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Former state university employee O'Shea paid in $165K to pension fund, could collect $3.2M in retirement

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Former state university employee Kevin O'Shea, who retired in June 2016, saved $165,340 toward a pension over 22 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, O'Shea would collect as much as $3.2 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes O'Shea received $67,195 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, O'Shea will have already received $207,693 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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