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Saturday, August 2, 2025

Former state university employee Cao paid in $101K to pension fund, could collect $1.87M in retirement

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Former state university employee Peter Cao, who retired in August 2018, saved $101,356 toward a pension over 17 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Cao would collect as much as $1.87 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Cao received $39,276 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Cao will have already received $121,398 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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