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Former state university employee Youngberg paid in $54K to pension fund, could collect $860K in retirement

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Former state university employee Lisa Youngberg, who retired in June 2017, saved $53,535 toward a pension over 18 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Youngberg would collect as much as $859,714, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DuPage Policy Journal.

The projection assumes Youngberg received $18,070 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Youngberg will have already received $55,852 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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