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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Former state university employee Hawthorne paid in $60K to pension fund, could collect $1.45M in retirement

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Former state university employee Thomas Hawthorne, who retired in January 2018, saved $60,118 toward a pension over 29 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Hawthorne would collect as much as $1.45 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chambana Sun.

The projection assumes Hawthorne received $30,492 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Hawthorne will have already received $61,899 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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