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Thursday, May 29, 2025

Former state university employee Sahly paid in $246K to pension fund, could collect $3.56M in retirement

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Former state university employee Elise Sahly, who retired in May 2018, saved $245,938 toward a pension over 22 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Sahly would collect as much as $3.56 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Sahly received $74,810 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Sahly will have already received $312,977 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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