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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Former state university employee Matlock Mahoney paid in $138K to pension fund, could collect $1.17M in retirement

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Former state university employee Sharon Matlock Mahoney, who retired in February 2018, saved $138,364 toward a pension over 10 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Matlock Mahoney would collect as much as $1.17 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Matlock Mahoney received $24,696 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 6 years of retirement, Matlock Mahoney will have already received $159,745 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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