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Former state university employee Pavitt paid in $82K to pension fund, could collect $1.33M in retirement

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Former state university employee Hugh Pavitt, who retired in July 2017, saved $82,178 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Pavitt would collect as much as $1.33 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Pavitt received $27,916 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Pavitt will have already received $86,285 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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