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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Former state university employee Mead paid in $123K to pension fund, could collect $3.82M in retirement

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Former state university employee Linnea Mead, who retired in February 2018, saved $122,888 toward a pension over 27 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Mead would collect as much as $3.82 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Mead received $80,257 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Mead will have already received $162,922 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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