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Monday, November 17, 2025

Former state university employee Meyer paid in $8K to pension fund, could collect $88K in retirement

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Former state university employee Rose Mary Meyer, who retired in January 2018, saved $8,054 toward a pension over 7 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Meyer would collect as much as $87,810, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Meyer received $1,845 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 5 years of retirement, Meyer will have already received $9,794 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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