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Former state university employee Wilson paid in $33K to pension fund, could collect $602K in retirement

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Former state university employee Calvin Wilson, who retired in July 2017, saved $32,917 toward a pension over 13 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Wilson would collect as much as $602,224, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Wilson received $12,658 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Wilson will have already received $39,125 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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