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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Former state university employee Anderson paid in $55K to pension fund, could collect $1.1M in retirement

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Former state university employee Cathy Anderson, who retired in March 2017, saved $55,290 toward a pension over 23 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Anderson would collect as much as $1.1 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Anderson received $23,175 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Anderson will have already received $71,631 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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