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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Former state university employee Schwarzbaum paid in $112K to pension fund, could collect $2.12M in retirement

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Former state university employee Sara Schwarzbaum, who retired in September 2016, saved $112,239 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Schwarzbaum would collect as much as $2.12 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Schwarzbaum received $44,528 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Schwarzbaum will have already received $137,632 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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