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Former state university employee Gorman Smith paid in $131K to pension fund, could collect $2.71M in retirement

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Former state university employee Deborah Gorman Smith, who retired in June 2017, saved $130,706 toward a pension over 19 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Gorman Smith would collect as much as $2.71 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Gorman Smith received $57,001 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Gorman Smith will have already received $176,184 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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