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Former state university employee Schwendau paid in $144K to pension fund, could collect $2.69M in retirement

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Former state university employee Mark Schwendau, who retired in July 2016, saved $143,956 toward a pension over 22 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Schwendau would collect as much as $2.69 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DeKalb Times.

The projection assumes Schwendau received $56,618 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Schwendau will have already received $175,002 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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