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Former state university employee Wiegers paid in $42K to pension fund, could collect $386K in retirement

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Former state university employee Patricia Wiegers, who retired in September 2017, saved $42,312 toward a pension over 10 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Wiegers would collect as much as $385,868, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Wiegers received $8,110 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 5 years of retirement, Wiegers will have already received $43,057 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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