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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Former state university employee Kentzler paid in $123K to pension fund, could collect $2.86M in retirement

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Former state university employee Mary Kentzler, who retired in January 2017, saved $123,182 toward a pension over 30 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Kentzler would collect as much as $2.86 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chambana Sun.

The projection assumes Kentzler received $60,122 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Kentzler will have already received $185,832 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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