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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Former state university employee Orlie paid in $151K to pension fund, could collect $2.92M in retirement

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Former state university employee Melissa Orlie, who retired in June 2018, saved $151,183 toward a pension over 28 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Orlie would collect as much as $2.92 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chambana Sun.

The projection assumes Orlie received $61,445 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Orlie will have already received $189,920 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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