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Former state university employee Trimuel paid in $42K to pension fund, could collect $727K in retirement

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Former state university employee Marionett Trimuel, who retired in January 2017, saved $41,920 toward a pension over 16 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Trimuel would collect as much as $726,510, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Trimuel received $15,270 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Trimuel will have already received $47,198 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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