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Former state university employee Peters paid in $95K to pension fund, could collect $1.39M in retirement

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Former state university employee Eric Peters, who retired in June 2016, saved $94,670 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Peters would collect as much as $1.39 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Peters received $29,179 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Peters will have already received $122,074 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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