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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Former state university employee McDonald paid in $147K to pension fund, could collect $2.48M in retirement

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Former state university employee Thomas McDonald, who retired in January 2019, saved $146,663 toward a pension over 25 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, McDonald would collect as much as $2.48 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes McDonald received $52,176 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, McDonald will have already received $161,270 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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