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Former state university employee Schott paid in $108K to pension fund, could collect $2.18M in retirement

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Former state university employee Holly Schott, who retired in January 2016, saved $107,862 toward a pension over 24 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Schott would collect as much as $2.18 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Schott received $45,899 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Schott will have already received $141,869 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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