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Sunday, June 29, 2025

Former state university employee Guiney paid in $59K to pension fund, could collect $1.45M in retirement

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Former state university employee Julia Guiney, who retired in June 2018, saved $59,481 toward a pension over 13 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Guiney would collect as much as $1.45 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Guiney received $30,382 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Guiney will have already received $61,675 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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