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Monday, August 4, 2025

Former state university employee Murdoch paid in $81K to pension fund, could collect $1.07M in retirement

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Former state university employee Patricia Murdoch, who retired in January 2019, saved $80,986 toward a pension over 13 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Murdoch would collect as much as $1.07 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chambana Sun.

The projection assumes Murdoch received $22,500 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Murdoch will have already received $94,131 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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