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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Former state university employee Schell paid in $45K to pension fund, could collect $849K in retirement

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Former state university employee Jane Schell, who retired in June 2017, saved $45,201 toward a pension over 22 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Schell would collect as much as $849,027, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DeKalb Times.

The projection assumes Schell received $17,845 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Schell will have already received $55,156 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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