Chicago City Wire

Former state university employee Robert McHale, who retired in January 2018, saved $142,906 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, McHale would collect as much as $2.38 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes McHale received $49,991 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, McHale will have already received $154,518 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.