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Thursday, May 29, 2025

Former state university employee Johnson paid in $149K to pension fund, could collect $2.88M in retirement

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Former state university employee Nell Johnson, who retired in May 2018, saved $149,417 toward a pension over 29 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Johnson would collect as much as $2.88 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Johnson received $60,516 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Johnson will have already received $187,048 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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