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Former state university employee Dzitoyeva paid in $69K to pension fund, could collect $998K in retirement

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Former state university employee Svetlana Dzitoyeva, who retired in November 2017, saved $68,752 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Dzitoyeva would collect as much as $997,513, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Dzitoyeva received $20,967 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Dzitoyeva will have already received $87,718 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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