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Monday, November 25, 2024

Former state university employee Meehan paid in $170K to pension fund, could collect $3.79M in retirement

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Former state university employee John Meehan, who retired in February 2017, saved $170,099 toward a pension over 26 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Meehan would collect as much as $3.79 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Meehan received $79,713 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Meehan will have already received $246,384 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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