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Former state university employee Williams paid in $40K to pension fund, could collect $1M in retirement

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Former state university employee Leathea Williams, who retired in January 2017, saved $40,196 toward a pension over 25 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Williams would collect as much as $1 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Williams received $21,048 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Williams will have already received $42,727 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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