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Sunday, May 25, 2025

Former state university employee Washington paid in $47K to pension fund, could collect $1.06M in retirement

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Former state university employee Betty Washington, who retired in June 2017, saved $46,597 toward a pension over 25 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Washington would collect as much as $1.06 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Washington received $22,324 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Washington will have already received $69,002 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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