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Former state university employee Riggsby paid in $44K to pension fund, could collect $783K in retirement

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Former state university employee Gloria Riggsby, who retired in May 2016, saved $44,263 toward a pension over 15 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Riggsby would collect as much as $782,579, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Riggsby received $16,449 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Riggsby will have already received $50,841 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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