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Monday, November 25, 2024

Former state university employee Lipton paid in $116K to pension fund, could collect $2.62M in retirement

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Former state university employee Howard Lipton, who retired in February 2017, saved $115,963 toward a pension over 12 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Lipton would collect as much as $2.62 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Lipton received $55,037 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Lipton will have already received $170,114 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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