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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Former state university employee Halford paid in $135K to pension fund, could collect $2.42M in retirement

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Former state university employee Anthony Halford, who retired in January 2018, saved $135,460 toward a pension over 23 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Halford would collect as much as $2.42 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Halford received $50,797 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Halford will have already received $157,009 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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