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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Former state university employee Washington paid in $49K to pension fund, could collect $917K in retirement

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Former state university employee Earnest Washington, who retired in November 2016, saved $48,785 toward a pension over 15 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Washington would collect as much as $917,410, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Washington received $19,283 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Washington will have already received $59,601 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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