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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Former state university employee Kowall paid in $50K to pension fund, could collect $1M in retirement

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Former state university employee Peter Kowall, who retired in May 2018, saved $50,089 toward a pension over 15 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Kowall would collect as much as $1 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Kowall received $21,054 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Kowall will have already received $65,077 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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