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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Former state university employee Coverdill paid in $276K to pension fund, could collect $5.24M in retirement

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Former state university employee Robert Coverdill, who retired in January 2016, saved $275,932 toward a pension over 32 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Coverdill would collect as much as $5.24 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Coverdill received $110,187 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Coverdill will have already received $340,578 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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