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Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Former state university employee Simpson paid in $57K to pension fund, could collect $993K in retirement

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Former state university employee Glen Simpson, who retired in April 2017, saved $57,108 toward a pension over 21 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Simpson would collect as much as $992,701, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Simpson received $20,865 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Simpson will have already received $64,492 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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