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Former state university employee Groner paid in $20K to pension fund, could collect $369K in retirement

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Former state university employee Brian Groner, who retired in June 2017, saved $19,857 toward a pension over 9 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Groner would collect as much as $369,318, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Groner received $7,762 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Groner will have already received $23,992 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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