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Carbondale Reporter

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Former state university employee Collins paid in $21K to pension fund, could collect $616K in retirement

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Former state university employee Christie Collins, who retired in June 2016, saved $20,632 toward a pension over 7 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Collins would collect as much as $616,063, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Collins received $12,949 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Collins will have already received $26,286 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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