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Former state university employee Carroll paid in $125K to pension fund, could collect $2.7M in retirement

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Former state university employee Catherine Carroll, who retired in October 2016, saved $124,603 toward a pension over 30 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Carroll would collect as much as $2.7 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Carroll received $56,833 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Carroll will have already received $175,665 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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