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Former state university employee Mason paid in $134K to pension fund, could collect $2.43M in retirement

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Former state university employee Sally Mason, who retired in August 2018, saved $133,688 toward a pension over 25 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Mason would collect as much as $2.43 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Mason received $51,009 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Mason will have already received $157,663 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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