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Friday, August 1, 2025

Former state university employee Wagstaff paid in $81K to pension fund, could collect $1.19M in retirement

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Former state university employee D. Wagstaff, who retired in May 2016, saved $80,880 toward a pension over 12 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Wagstaff would collect as much as $1.19 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Wagstaff received $24,961 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Wagstaff will have already received $104,427 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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