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Former state university employee Super paid in $65K to pension fund, could collect $1.24M in retirement

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Former state university employee Joel Super, who retired in November 2017, saved $64,844 toward a pension over 19 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Super would collect as much as $1.24 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Super received $25,992 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Super will have already received $80,339 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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