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Former state university employee Knoblauch paid in $80K to pension fund, could collect $1.64M in retirement

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Former state university employee James Knoblauch, who retired in September 2016, saved $80,499 toward a pension over 23 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Knoblauch would collect as much as $1.64 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Knoblauch received $34,441 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Knoblauch will have already received $106,453 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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