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Friday, April 11, 2025

Former state university employee Germain paid in $166K to pension fund, could collect $3.18M in retirement

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Former state university employee Monique Germain, who retired in June 2016, saved $165,666 toward a pension over 27 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Germain would collect as much as $3.18 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Germain received $66,752 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Germain will have already received $206,325 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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