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Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Former state university employee Vest paid in $37K to pension fund, could collect $563K in retirement

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Former state university employee Michael Vest, who retired in July 2017, saved $36,873 toward a pension over 13 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Vest would collect as much as $562,655, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Macon Reporter.

The projection assumes Vest received $11,826 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Vest will have already received $49,475 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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