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Former state university employee Wallace paid in $236K to pension fund, could collect $5.04M in retirement

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Former state university employee Gabriel Wallace, who retired in August 2016, saved $236,326 toward a pension over 29 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Wallace would collect as much as $5.04 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Wallace received $105,907 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Wallace will have already received $327,348 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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