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Former state university employee Billerman Schumann paid in $51K to pension fund, could collect $1.92M in retirement

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Former state university employee Karen Billerman Schumann, who retired in October 2017, saved $50,727 toward a pension over 11 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Billerman Schumann would collect as much as $1.92 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Billerman Schumann received $40,421 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Billerman Schumann will have already received $82,055 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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