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Former state university employee Hallahan paid in $101K to pension fund, could collect $1.26M in retirement

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Former state university employee Michael Hallahan, who retired in January 2017, saved $101,124 toward a pension over 16 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Hallahan would collect as much as $1.26 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Hallahan received $26,388 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Hallahan will have already received $110,398 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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