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Former state university employee Wilson paid in $51K to pension fund, could collect $824K in retirement

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Former state university employee Royann Wilson, who retired in June 2016, saved $51,082 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Wilson would collect as much as $824,078, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Wilson received $17,321 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Wilson will have already received $53,538 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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