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Friday, August 1, 2025

Former state university employee Holley paid in $84K to pension fund, could collect $1.23M in retirement

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Former state university employee Geralyn Holley, who retired in October 2018, saved $84,408 toward a pension over 15 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Holley would collect as much as $1.23 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Holley received $25,852 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Holley will have already received $108,157 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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