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Former state university employee Combs paid in $48K to pension fund, could collect $768K in retirement

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Former state university employee Mark Combs, who retired in September 2016, saved $48,032 toward a pension over 18 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Combs would collect as much as $768,341, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Combs received $16,149 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Combs will have already received $49,914 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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