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Former state university employee Gibson paid in $51K to pension fund, could collect $893K in retirement

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Former state university employee Madeline Gibson, who retired in July 2016, saved $51,016 toward a pension over 18 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Gibson would collect as much as $892,781, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Gibson received $18,765 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Gibson will have already received $58,001 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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