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Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Former state university employee Kale paid in $204K to pension fund, could collect $4.73M in retirement

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Former state university employee Patricia Kale, who retired in May 2017, saved $203,828 toward a pension over 26 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Kale would collect as much as $4.73 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Kale received $99,335 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Kale will have already received $307,034 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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