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Monday, May 12, 2025

Former state university employee Tully paid in $56K to pension fund, could collect $1.46M in retirement

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Former state university employee Mary Tully, who retired in January 2016, saved $55,651 toward a pension over 26 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Tully would collect as much as $1.46 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Illinois Valley Times.

The projection assumes Tully received $30,647 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Tully will have already received $62,213 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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