Quantcast

Chicago City Wire

Monday, July 28, 2025

Former state university employee Stern paid in $8K to pension fund, could collect $135K in retirement

Shutterstock 373239541

Former state university employee Marsha Stern, who retired in January 2016, saved $7,657 toward a pension over 10 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Stern would collect as much as $134,539, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Stern received $2,827 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Stern will have already received $8,738 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

MORE NEWS