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Sunday, May 25, 2025

Former state university employee Wagner paid in $136K to pension fund, could collect $3.54M in retirement

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Former state university employee Nikolaus Wagner, who retired in June 2017, saved $136,468 toward a pension over 28 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Wagner would collect as much as $3.54 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Wagner received $74,406 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Wagner will have already received $151,044 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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