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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Former state university employee Coughlin paid in $6K to pension fund, could collect $467K in retirement

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Former state university employee Mary Coughlin, who retired in July 2017, saved $6,169 toward a pension over 6 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Coughlin would collect as much as $467,445, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Coughlin received $9,825 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 1 years of retirement, Coughlin will have already received $9,825 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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