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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Former state university employee Pietron paid in $107K to pension fund, could collect $1.93M in retirement

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Former state university employee Thaddeus Pietron, who retired in March 2018, saved $106,823 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Pietron would collect as much as $1.93 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Pietron received $40,498 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Pietron will have already received $125,175 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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