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Former state university employee Pleasure paid in $56K to pension fund, could collect $1.21M in retirement

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Former state university employee Marcella Pleasure, who retired in September 2017, saved $55,816 toward a pension over 26 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Pleasure would collect as much as $1.21 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Pleasure received $25,454 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Pleasure will have already received $78,677 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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