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Former state university employee Friedland paid in $88K to pension fund, could collect $4.6M in retirement

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Former state university employee Shmuel Friedland, who retired in June 2018, saved $88,128 toward a pension over 15 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Friedland would collect as much as $4.6 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Friedland received $96,598 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 1 years of retirement, Friedland will have already received $96,598 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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