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Former state university employee Martinez paid in $57K to pension fund, could collect $1.66M in retirement

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Former state university employee Richard Martinez, who retired in February 2016, saved $57,358 toward a pension over 21 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Martinez would collect as much as $1.66 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Martinez received $34,881 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Martinez will have already received $70,808 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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