Chicago City Wire

Former state university employee Shelley Gurin, who retired in June 2017, saved $32,423 toward a pension over 11 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Gurin would collect as much as $422,886, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Gurin received $8,888 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Gurin will have already received $37,186 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.