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Former state university employee Anderson paid in $38K to pension fund, could collect $553K in retirement

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Former state university employee Charles Anderson, who retired in June 2017, saved $38,168 toward a pension over 16 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Anderson would collect as much as $553,418, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Anderson received $11,632 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Anderson will have already received $48,663 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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