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Former state university employee Fukai paid in $75K to pension fund, could collect $857K in retirement

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Former state university employee Tohru Fukai, who retired in June 2017, saved $75,398 toward a pension over 11 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Fukai would collect as much as $857,048, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Fukai received $18,014 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 5 years of retirement, Fukai will have already received $95,638 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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