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Former state university employee Jackson paid in $69K to pension fund, could collect $1.03M in retirement

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Former state university employee Lenore Jackson, who retired in January 2019, saved $69,359 toward a pension over 19 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Jackson would collect as much as $1.03 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Jackson received $21,672 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Jackson will have already received $90,668 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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