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Friday, April 18, 2025

Former state university employee Mitchell paid in $26K to pension fund, could collect $1.26M in retirement

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Former state university employee Raymond Mitchell, who retired in April 2017, saved $25,992 toward a pension over 13 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Mitchell would collect as much as $1.26 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Mitchell received $26,472 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 1 years of retirement, Mitchell will have already received $26,472 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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