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Former state university employee Feighery paid in $60K to pension fund, could collect $1.24M in retirement

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Former state university employee Christine Feighery, who retired in August 2016, saved $59,965 toward a pension over 15 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Feighery would collect as much as $1.24 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Feighery received $26,068 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Feighery will have already received $80,574 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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