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Former state university employee Holmes paid in $42K to pension fund, could collect $1.13M in retirement

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Former state university employee Mary Holmes, who retired in January 2017, saved $42,227 toward a pension over 24 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Holmes would collect as much as $1.13 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Holmes received $23,841 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Holmes will have already received $48,397 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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