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Former state university employee Zoelzer paid in $119K to pension fund, could collect $2.69M in retirement

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Former state university employee Michael Zoelzer, who retired in June 2017, saved $119,105 toward a pension over 32 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

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

The projection assumes Zoelzer received $56,532 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Zoelzer will have already received $174,735 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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