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Former state university employee Gregg paid in $6K to pension fund, could collect $121K in retirement

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Former state university employee Carol Gregg, who retired in October 2017, saved $5,824 toward a pension over 12 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Gregg would collect as much as $121,300, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Gregg received $2,549 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Gregg will have already received $7,878 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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