You recently retired with $35$ years of pensionable service and averaged $$50,000$ over your best consecutive $60$ months. Your company pays out $1\mathrm{.}5\%$ for each year of service based on the above salary average. What is your retirement pay as a percent of your "best consecutive $60$ months" average salary?

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