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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Former state university employee Gonzalez paid in $77K to pension fund, could collect $1.8M in retirement

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Former state university employee Maria Gonzalez, who retired in May 2017, saved $77,242 toward a pension over 30 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Gonzalez would collect as much as $1.8 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Gonzalez received $37,843 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Gonzalez will have already received $116,968 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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