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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Former state university employee Crockett paid in $117K to pension fund, could collect $2.02M in retirement

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Former state university employee Joan Crockett, who retired in April 2017, saved $117,477 toward a pension over 27 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Crockett would collect as much as $2.02 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Crockett received $42,496 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Crockett will have already received $131,351 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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