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East Central Reporter

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Former state university employee Thurn paid in $6K to pension fund, could collect $91K in retirement

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Former state university employee Rebecca Thurn, who retired in June 2017, saved $6,160 toward a pension over 12 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Thurn would collect as much as $91,105, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes East Central Reporter.

The projection assumes Thurn received $1,914 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Thurn will have already received $8,006 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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