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Monday, May 12, 2025

Former state university employee Giffhorn paid in $64K to pension fund, could collect $1.45M in retirement

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Former state university employee Sharon Giffhorn, who retired in July 2017, saved $64,168 toward a pension over 28 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Giffhorn would collect as much as $1.45 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Giffhorn received $30,534 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Giffhorn will have already received $94,378 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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