Chicago City Wire

Former state university employee Elisabeth Wittman, who retired in December 2018, saved $25,349 toward a pension over 1 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Wittman would collect as much as $161,566, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Wittman received $3,396 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 7 years of retirement, Wittman will have already received $26,022 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.