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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Former state university employee Briggs paid in $54K to pension fund, could collect $1.42M in retirement

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Former state university employee Pamela Briggs, who retired in January 2018, saved $53,750 toward a pension over 27 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Briggs would collect as much as $1.42 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Briggs received $29,874 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Briggs will have already received $60,644 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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