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Former state university employee Robinson paid in $144K to pension fund, could collect $1.97M in retirement

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Former state university employee Thomas Robinson, who retired in January 2019, saved $144,257 toward a pension over 21 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Robinson would collect as much as $1.97 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Robinson received $41,436 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Robinson will have already received $173,352 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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