Quantcast

Chicago City Wire

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Former state university employee Carlson paid in $67K to pension fund, could collect $1.38M in retirement

Money 03

Former state university employee Susan Carlson, who retired in September 2016, saved $66,569 toward a pension over 21 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Carlson would collect as much as $1.38 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Carlson received $28,911 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Carlson will have already received $89,360 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

MORE NEWS