Financial Highlights
- Fiscal year 2020 contributions from the state and employers were $1,917.0 million, an increase of $203.8 million, or 11.9% from fiscal year 2019.
- The System's benefit payments were $2,744.1 million, an increase of $126.9 million, or 4.8% for fiscal year 2020.
- The System's return on investment, net of investment management fees, was 2.6% for fiscal year 2020.
- TThe System's net position at the end of fiscal year 2020 was $22.6 billion, an increase of $193.2 million or 0.9%.
Funding
SURS receives funding from three key sources: employer contributions, employee contributions and investments.
The employer contribution is mostly made by the state of Illinois. A university or community college may pay the employer normal cost, or the cost of pension benefits accrued by an employee in a given year, when an employee is paid from federal, trust or other non-state funds.
Since fiscal year 1996, the state contribution has been made as a direct appropriation to SURS. It is a separate appropriation from the state's appropriations to universities and community colleges for their operating expenses.
For more information, view the SURS Funding Fact Sheet or SURS Comprehensive Annual Financial Report.
SURS Total State Appropriation by Fiscal Year
*State appropriation was paid in full.
| FY 2021 Appropriation = $1,995,767,000 Received to Date |
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| FY 2021 | Total Received | Total Due | Amount Owed |
| July | 166,313,916.66 | 166,313,916.66 | - |
| August | 84,256,958.32 | 166,313,916.66 | 82,056,958.34 |
| September | 248,370,875.00 | 166,313,916.66 | (82,056,958.34) |
| October | 2,350,000.00 | 166,313,916.66 | 163,313,916.66 |
| November | 183,131,958.32 | 166,313,916.66 | (16,818,041.66) |
| December | 123,563,916.66 | 166,313,916.66 | 42,750,000.00 |
| January | 355,009,791.66 | 166,313,916.66 | (188,695,875.00) |
| February | 166,313,916.67 | 166,313,916.67 | - |
| March | 166,313,916.68 | 166,313,916.68 | - |
| Total | 1,496,825,249.97 | 1,995,767,000.00 | 498,941,750.03 |
| Total FY 2020 Appropriation | 1,854,692,000 | Paid in full July 7, 2020 |
| Total FY 2019 Appropriation | 1,655,154,000 | Paid in full July 31, 2019 |
| Total FY 2018 Appropriation | 1,629,307,606 | Paid in full July 12, 2018 |
| Total FY 2017 Appropriation | 1,671,426,000 | Paid in full September 22, 2017 |
| Total FY 2016 Appropriation | 1,601,480,000 | Paid in full August 26, 2016 |
| Total FY 2015 Appropriation | 1,544,200,000 | Paid in full August 26, 2015 |
| Total FY 2014 Appropriation | 1,509,766,000 | Paid in full July 30, 2014 |
| Total FY 2013 Appropriation | 1,402,800,000 | Paid in full July 30, 2013 |