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Former state university employee Deja paid in $64K to pension fund, could collect $953K in retirement

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Former state university employee Mary Deja, who retired in November 2018, saved $64,012 toward a pension over 25 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Deja would collect as much as $953,411, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Deja received $20,040 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Deja will have already received $83,839 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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