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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Former state university employee McNeil paid in $582K to pension fund, could collect $8.05M in retirement

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Former state university employee Ronald McNeil, who retired in January 2018, saved $582,115 toward a pension over 26 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, McNeil would collect as much as $8.05 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes McNeil received $169,280 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, McNeil will have already received $708,204 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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