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Friday, May 30, 2025

Former state university employee Valaitis paid in $104K to pension fund, could collect $2.01M in retirement

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Former state university employee Vytautas Valaitis, who retired in June 2018, saved $104,039 toward a pension over 30 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Valaitis would collect as much as $2.01 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Valaitis received $42,336 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Valaitis will have already received $130,856 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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