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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Former state university employee Meyer paid in $99K to pension fund, could collect $2.02M in retirement

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Former state university employee Scott Meyer, who retired in January 2016, saved $99,452 toward a pension over 27 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Meyer would collect as much as $2.02 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Meyer received $42,374 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Meyer will have already received $130,973 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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