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Former state university employee Rogers paid in $69K to pension fund, could collect $1.3M in retirement

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Former state university employee David Rogers, who retired in December 2018, saved $68,886 toward a pension over 29 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Rogers would collect as much as $1.3 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DeKalb Times.

The projection assumes Rogers received $27,408 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Rogers will have already received $84,715 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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