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Former state university employee McDonald paid in $76K to pension fund, could collect $1.29M in retirement

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Former state university employee Josie McDonald, who retired in May 2016, saved $75,709 toward a pension over 18 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, McDonald would collect as much as $1.29 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes McDonald received $27,022 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, McDonald will have already received $83,523 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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