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Former state university employee Koziarski paid in $22K to pension fund, could collect $403K in retirement

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Former state university employee Rita Koziarski, who retired in June 2016, saved $22,351 toward a pension over 11 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Koziarski would collect as much as $402,813, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Koziarski received $8,466 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Koziarski will have already received $26,168 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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