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Monday, December 23, 2024

Former state university employee Wallace paid in $132K to pension fund, could collect $3.04M in retirement

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Former state university employee Arlene Wallace, who retired in November 2016, saved $132,137 toward a pension over 23 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Wallace would collect as much as $3.04 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Wallace received $63,841 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Wallace will have already received $197,326 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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