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Former state university employee Stroud paid in $128K to pension fund, could collect $2.4M in retirement

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Former state university employee Diana Stroud, who retired in May 2017, saved $128,200 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Stroud would collect as much as $2.4 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Stroud received $50,472 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Stroud will have already received $156,004 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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