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Former state university employee Shelby paid in $44K to pension fund, could collect $756K in retirement

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Former state university employee Deborah Shelby, who retired in October 2018, saved $43,843 toward a pension over 22 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Shelby would collect as much as $755,878, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Shelby received $15,888 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Shelby will have already received $49,109 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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