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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Former state university employee McColley paid in $65K to pension fund, could collect $1.32M in retirement

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Former state university employee Monica McColley, who retired in July 2017, saved $65,088 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, McColley would collect as much as $1.32 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes McColley received $27,714 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, McColley will have already received $85,660 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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