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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Former state university employee Arruda paid in $645K to pension fund, could collect $15.42M in retirement

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Former state university employee Jose Arruda, who retired in April 2019, saved $644,603 toward a pension over 25 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Arruda would collect as much as $15.42 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Arruda received $324,024 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Arruda will have already received $657,769 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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