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Former state university employee Rutschman paid in $134K to pension fund, could collect $2.99M in retirement

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Former state university employee Richard Rutschman, who retired in August 2017, saved $134,452 toward a pension over 28 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Rutschman would collect as much as $2.99 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Rutschman received $62,908 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Rutschman will have already received $194,442 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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