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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Former state university employee Kelly paid in $118K to pension fund, could collect $2.68M in retirement

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Former state university employee James Kelly, who retired in June 2018, saved $118,386 toward a pension over 27 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Kelly would collect as much as $2.68 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chambana Sun.

The projection assumes Kelly received $56,297 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Kelly will have already received $174,009 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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