Chicago City Wire

Former state university employee Roosevelt Harris, who retired in November 2018, saved $29,499 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Harris would collect as much as $570,334, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Harris received $11,988 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Harris will have already received $37,054 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.