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Former state university employee Roth paid in $122K to pension fund, could collect $2.68M in retirement

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Former state university employee Joseph Roth, who retired in January 2017, saved $122,105 toward a pension over 29 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Roth would collect as much as $2.68 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Roth received $56,266 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Roth will have already received $173,913 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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