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Sunday, July 13, 2025

Former state university employee Olson paid in $50K to pension fund, could collect $1.03M in retirement

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Former state university employee Dena Olson, who retired in January 2016, saved $49,641 toward a pension over 26 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Olson would collect as much as $1.03 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DeKalb Times.

The projection assumes Olson received $21,685 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Olson will have already received $67,027 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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