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Former state university employee Grossmayer paid in $18K to pension fund, could collect $274K in retirement

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Former state university employee Michael Grossmayer, who retired in June 2018, saved $17,755 toward a pension over 14 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Grossmayer would collect as much as $274,376, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Grossmayer received $5,767 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Grossmayer will have already received $17,825 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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