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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Former state university employee Elkin paid in $52K to pension fund, could collect $853K in retirement

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Former state university employee Darrell Elkin, who retired in January 2018, saved $51,842 toward a pension over 21 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Elkin would collect as much as $853,274, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chambana Sun.

The projection assumes Elkin received $17,935 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Elkin will have already received $55,435 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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