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Former state university employee Costigan paid in $280K to pension fund, could collect $5.54M in retirement

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Former state university employee Michael Costigan, who retired in August 2017, saved $279,856 toward a pension over 26 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Costigan would collect as much as $5.54 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Costigan received $116,429 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Costigan will have already received $359,871 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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