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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Former state university employee Livingston paid in $97K to pension fund, could collect $2.17M in retirement

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Former state university employee Phyllis Livingston, who retired in February 2018, saved $97,177 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Livingston would collect as much as $2.17 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Livingston received $45,689 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Livingston will have already received $141,221 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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