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Former state university employee Wallbaum paid in $90K to pension fund, could collect $1.5M in retirement

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Former state university employee Charles Wallbaum, who retired in May 2018, saved $90,321 toward a pension over 15 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Wallbaum would collect as much as $1.5 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Wallbaum received $31,524 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Wallbaum will have already received $97,438 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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