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Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Former state university employee Waddell paid in $53K to pension fund, could collect $1.15M in retirement

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Former state university employee David Waddell, who retired in May 2017, saved $52,686 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Waddell would collect as much as $1.15 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Waddell received $24,128 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Waddell will have already received $74,578 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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