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Former state university employee Bagnall paid in $72K to pension fund, could collect $1.23M in retirement

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Former state university employee Jane Bagnall, who retired in June 2018, saved $72,245 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Bagnall 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 Bagnall received $25,787 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Bagnall will have already received $79,706 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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