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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Former state university employee Newman paid in $64K to pension fund, could collect $1.28M in retirement

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Former state university employee Susan Newman, who retired in May 2017, saved $64,274 toward a pension over 16 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Newman would collect as much as $1.28 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Newman received $26,962 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Newman will have already received $83,337 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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