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Former state university employee Clark paid in $75K to pension fund, could collect $1.23M in retirement

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Former state university employee Philip Clark, who retired in July 2018, saved $75,203 toward a pension over 19 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Clark would collect as much as $1.23 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Clark received $25,947 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Clark will have already received $80,199 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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