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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Former state university employee Hensley paid in $46K to pension fund, could collect $1.04M in retirement

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Former state university employee Ralph Hensley, who retired in January 2016, saved $46,490 toward a pension over 21 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Hensley would collect as much as $1.04 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Hensley received $21,857 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Hensley will have already received $67,558 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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