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Former state university employee Vaughn paid in $56K to pension fund, could collect $890K in retirement

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Former state university employee Deborah Vaughn, who retired in December 2018, saved $56,275 toward a pension over 19 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Vaughn would collect as much as $890,040, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Vaughn received $18,708 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Vaughn will have already received $57,824 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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