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Monday, November 25, 2024

Former state university employee Valencia paid in $81K to pension fund, could collect $2.2M in retirement

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Former state university employee Karen Valencia, who retired in February 2017, saved $80,885 toward a pension over 30 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Valencia would collect as much as $2.2 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Valencia received $46,228 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Valencia will have already received $93,843 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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