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Former state university employee Black paid in $92K to pension fund, could collect $1.12M in retirement

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Former state university employee Alistair Black, who retired in August 2017, saved $92,149 toward a pension over 9 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Black would collect as much as $1.12 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Black received $23,487 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Black will have already received $98,263 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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