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Former state university employee Schmitt paid in $41K to pension fund, could collect $692K in retirement

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Former state university employee Christina Schmitt, who retired in August 2017, saved $40,846 toward a pension over 19 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Schmitt would collect as much as $691,577, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Schmitt received $14,536 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Schmitt will have already received $44,929 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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