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Friday, April 26, 2024

Former state university employee Shearer paid in $40K to pension fund, could collect $618K in retirement

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Former state university employee Ted Shearer, who retired in December 2017, saved $39,506 toward a pension over 11 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Shearer would collect as much as $617,998, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Shearer received $12,989 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Shearer will have already received $40,148 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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