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Monday, October 6, 2025

Former state university employee Johnson paid in $73K to pension fund, could collect $1.24M in retirement

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Former state university employee Katherine Johnson, who retired in October 2017, saved $73,117 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Johnson would collect as much as $1.24 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Johnson received $26,088 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Johnson will have already received $80,636 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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