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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Former state university employee Browning paid in $68K to pension fund, could collect $1.61M in retirement

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Former state university employee Ronald Browning, who retired in October 2018, saved $68,345 toward a pension over 31 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Browning would collect as much as $1.61 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Browning received $33,776 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Browning will have already received $68,565 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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