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Former state university employee Woolf paid in $87K to pension fund, could collect $1.73M in retirement

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Former state university employee Thomas Woolf, who retired in July 2017, saved $87,284 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Woolf would collect as much as $1.73 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Woolf received $36,409 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Woolf will have already received $112,536 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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