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Former state university employee Carmody paid in $2K to pension fund, could collect $29K in retirement

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Former state university employee Shih Mei Carmody, who retired in December 2017, saved $1,678 toward a pension over 1 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Carmody would collect as much as $28,608, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Carmody received $601 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Carmody will have already received $1,858 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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