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Carbondale Reporter

Monday, July 21, 2025

Former state university employee Giacomelli paid in $252K to pension fund, could collect $4.1M in retirement

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Former state university employee Gary Giacomelli, who retired in November 2018, saved $251,616 toward a pension over 29 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Giacomelli would collect as much as $4.1 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Giacomelli received $86,256 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Giacomelli will have already received $266,609 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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