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Former state university employee Lekkas paid in $6K to pension fund, could collect $104K in retirement

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Former state university employee Harry Lekkas, who retired in March 2016, saved $6,204 toward a pension over 7 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Lekkas would collect as much as $104,418, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Lekkas received $2,194 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Lekkas will have already received $6,782 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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