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Sunday, October 5, 2025

Former state university employee Morrissey paid in $222K to pension fund, could collect $4.08M in retirement

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Former state university employee James Morrissey, who retired in September 2017, saved $222,098 toward a pension over 17 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Morrissey would collect as much as $4.08 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Morrissey received $85,764 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Morrissey will have already received $265,088 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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