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Former state university employee Trevino paid in $44K to pension fund, could collect $707K in retirement

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Former state university employee Maria Trevino, who retired in January 2017, saved $44,093 toward a pension over 16 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Trevino would collect as much as $707,025, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Trevino received $14,861 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Trevino will have already received $45,934 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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