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Sunday, May 25, 2025

Former state university employee Lorenz paid in $192K to pension fund, could collect $3.28M in retirement

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Former state university employee Dagmar Lorenz, who retired in September 2017, saved $192,482 toward a pension over 21 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Lorenz would collect as much as $3.28 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Lorenz received $68,870 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Lorenz will have already received $212,870 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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