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Thursday, June 19, 2025

Former state university employee O'Mara paid in $532 to pension fund, could collect $10K in retirement

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Former state university employee John O'Mara, who retired in October 2018, saved $532 toward a pension over 1 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, O'Mara would collect as much as $9,705, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes O'Mara received $204 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, O'Mara will have already received $630 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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