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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Former state university employee Gilles paid in $140K to pension fund, could collect $1.79M in retirement

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Former state university employee Timothy Gilles, who retired in December 2017, saved $139,902 toward a pension over 15 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Gilles would collect as much as $1.79 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Gilles received $37,633 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Gilles will have already received $157,443 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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