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Friday, May 23, 2025

Former state university employee Arnold paid in $86K to pension fund, could collect $1.83M in retirement

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Former state university employee Rebecca Arnold, who retired in May 2016, saved $85,569 toward a pension over 16 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Arnold would collect as much as $1.83 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Arnold received $38,502 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Arnold will have already received $119,006 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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