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Former state university employee Shetley paid in $70K to pension fund, could collect $1.11M in retirement

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Former state university employee Paul Shetley, who retired in June 2017, saved $69,866 toward a pension over 13 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Shetley would collect as much as $1.11 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Shetley received $23,420 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Shetley will have already received $72,390 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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