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Former state university employee Roa paid in $102K to pension fund, could collect $2.48M in retirement

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Former state university employee Alicia Roa, who retired in January 2017, saved $102,360 toward a pension over 34 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Roa would collect as much as $2.48 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Roa received $52,068 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Roa will have already received $105,698 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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