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Friday, July 11, 2025

Former state university employee Spear paid in $111K to pension fund, could collect $2.53M in retirement

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Former state university employee Diana Spear, who retired in January 2016, saved $110,541 toward a pension over 31 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Spear would collect as much as $2.53 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Spear received $53,107 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Spear will have already received $164,148 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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