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Former state university employee Roegge paid in $185K to pension fund, could collect $4.48M in retirement

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Former state university employee Chris Roegge, who retired in July 2018, saved $184,829 toward a pension over 32 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Roegge would collect as much as $4.48 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Roegge received $94,218 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Roegge will have already received $191,263 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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