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Sunday, May 25, 2025

Former state university employee Carter paid in $15K to pension fund, could collect $261K in retirement

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Former state university employee Kerry Carter, who retired in November 2017, saved $15,292 toward a pension over 7 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Carter would collect as much as $260,566, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Carter received $5,476 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Carter will have already received $16,925 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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