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Former state university employee Rampenthal paid in $43K to pension fund, could collect $1M in retirement

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Former state university employee Kim Rampenthal, who retired in March 2018, saved $42,877 toward a pension over 12 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Rampenthal would collect as much as $1 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Rampenthal received $21,095 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Rampenthal will have already received $65,203 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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