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Former state university employee Davis paid in $66K to pension fund, could collect $1.16M in retirement

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Former state university employee Joseph Davis, who retired in December 2017, saved $66,307 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Davis would collect as much as $1.16 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Davis received $24,322 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Davis will have already received $75,178 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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