Former state university employee Wilkerson paid in $50K to pension fund, could collect $780K in retirement

By East Central Reporter Reports

Oct 1, 2016

Former state university employee Julie Wilkerson, who retired in September 2016, saved $49,756 toward a pension over 21 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Wilkerson would collect as much as $779,742, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes East Central Reporter.

The projection assumes Wilkerson received $16,389 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Wilkerson will have already received $50,657 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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