Quantcast

Chicago City Wire

Saturday, May 24, 2025

Former state university employee Faherty paid in $13K to pension fund, could collect $182K in retirement

Shutterstock 443523118

Former state university employee Elaine Faherty, who retired in January 2017, saved $12,772 toward a pension over 7 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Faherty would collect as much as $182,301, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Faherty received $3,831 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Faherty will have already received $16,027 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

MORE NEWS