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East Central Reporter

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Former state university employee Smith paid in $31K to pension fund, could collect $500K in retirement

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Former state university employee Vickie Smith, who retired in June 2018, saved $30,688 toward a pension over 11 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Smith would collect as much as $499,718, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes East Central Reporter.

The projection assumes Smith received $10,503 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Smith will have already received $32,464 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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