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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Former state university employee Piano paid in $194K to pension fund, could collect $5.02M in retirement

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Former state university employee Mariann Piano, who retired in September 2017, saved $194,010 toward a pension over 27 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Piano would collect as much as $5.02 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Piano received $105,600 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Piano will have already received $214,368 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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