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Former state university employee Baker paid in $229K to pension fund, could collect $5.05M in retirement

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Former state university employee Karen Baker, who retired in July 2018, saved $229,207 toward a pension over 30 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Baker would collect as much as $5.05 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DeKalb Times.

The projection assumes Baker received $106,061 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Baker will have already received $327,824 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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