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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Former state university employee Paul paid in $170K to pension fund, could collect $4.26M in retirement

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Former state university employee Robert Paul, who retired in August 2017, saved $169,742 toward a pension over 29 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Paul would collect as much as $4.26 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Paul received $89,477 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Paul will have already received $181,638 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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