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Former state university employee Karayiannis paid in $107K to pension fund, could collect $1.96M in retirement

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Former state university employee Dimitrios Karayiannis, who retired in September 2017, saved $107,480 toward a pension over 27 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Karayiannis would collect as much as $1.96 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Karayiannis received $41,201 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Karayiannis will have already received $127,348 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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