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Friday, April 26, 2024

Former state university employee Michalow paid in $97K to pension fund, could collect $2.73M in retirement

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Former state university employee Theresa Michalow, who retired in January 2016, saved $96,544 toward a pension over 23 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Michalow would collect as much as $2.73 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Michalow received $57,471 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Michalow will have already received $116,666 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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