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Former state university employee Bailey paid in $61K to pension fund, could collect $919K in retirement

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Former state university employee Barry Bailey, who retired in January 2018, saved $60,533 toward a pension over 14 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Bailey would collect as much as $919,031, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Bailey received $19,317 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Bailey will have already received $80,817 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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