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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Former state university employee Erickson paid in $495K to pension fund, could collect $9.82M in retirement

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Former state university employee Timothy Erickson, who retired in September 2016, saved $494,760 toward a pension over 25 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Erickson would collect as much as $9.82 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Erickson received $206,387 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Erickson will have already received $637,922 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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