Former state university employee Schweitzer paid in $141K to pension fund, could collect $2.3M in retirement

By Local Labs News Service

Feb 1, 2018

Former state university employee Steven Schweitzer, who retired in January 2018, saved $140,803 toward a pension over 18 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Schweitzer would collect as much as $2.3 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Schweitzer received $48,239 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Schweitzer will have already received $149,102 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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