East Central Reporter

Former state university employee Mina Coleman, who retired in November 2017, saved $34,952 toward a pension over 14 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Coleman would collect as much as $607,117, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes East Central Reporter.

The projection assumes Coleman received $12,761 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Coleman will have already received $39,443 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.