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Former state university employee Hills paid in $51K to pension fund, could collect $1.38M in retirement

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Former state university employee Scott Hills, who retired in December 2018, saved $50,916 toward a pension over 23 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Hills would collect as much as $1.38 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Hills received $29,102 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Hills will have already received $59,077 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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