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Former state university employee Suchecki paid in $65K to pension fund, could collect $763K in retirement

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Former state university employee Sharon Suchecki, who retired in August 2017, saved $65,215 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Suchecki would collect as much as $762,797, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Suchecki received $16,033 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Suchecki will have already received $67,075 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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