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Former state university employee Tompson paid in $20K to pension fund, could collect $844K in retirement

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Former state university employee Sara Tompson, who retired in September 2017, saved $20,121 toward a pension over 12 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Tompson would collect as much as $844,368, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Tompson received $17,748 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Tompson will have already received $36,028 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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