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Friday, August 1, 2025

Former state university employee Dippold paid in $16K to pension fund, could collect $288K in retirement

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Former state university employee Susan Dippold, who retired in January 2019, saved $15,616 toward a pension over 7 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Dippold would collect as much as $288,307, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Dippold received $6,060 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Dippold will have already received $18,731 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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