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The State Employees' Retirement System Of Illinois had 61,396 active participants receiving an average salary of $64,587 in 2018, according to the latest data reported to the Illinois Department of Insurance Pension Division.

The DOI biennial report shows active State Employees' Retirement System Of Illinois participants earned $2,147,483,647 in total salaries in 2018.

Statewide, there are 602,679 active pensioners in the state's 662 public retirement systems and pension funds. The average salary is $58,172. In all, active pension fund participants earned $20,056,767,975 in total salaries.

	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	Change 2014-2018
Active pensioners	62,710	63,273	61,317	60,612	61,396	-1314
Average salary	$65,979	$66,747	$66,399	$65,512	$64,587	-$1,392