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Saturday, May 24, 2025

Former state university employee Barlan paid in $114K to pension fund, could collect $1.68M in retirement

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Former state university employee Anita Barlan, who retired in January 2017, saved $113,555 toward a pension over 12 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Barlan would collect as much as $1.68 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Barlan received $35,328 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Barlan will have already received $147,800 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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