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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Former state university employee Jones paid in $35K to pension fund, could collect $1.29M in retirement

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Former state university employee Sandra Jones, who retired in May 2017, saved $35,404 toward a pension over 26 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Jones would collect as much as $1.29 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Jones received $27,118 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Jones will have already received $55,050 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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