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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Former state university employee Tarr paid in $39K to pension fund, could collect $498K in retirement

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Former state university employee David Tarr, who retired in June 2017, saved $38,612 toward a pension over 12 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Tarr would collect as much as $498,051, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Tarr received $10,468 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Tarr will have already received $43,793 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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