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Carbondale Reporter

Sunday, April 20, 2025

Former state university employee Blythe Friday paid in $55K to pension fund, could collect $1.19M in retirement

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Former state university employee Camellia Blythe Friday, who retired in April 2018, saved $55,313 toward a pension over 29 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Blythe Friday would collect as much as $1.19 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Blythe Friday received $25,046 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Blythe Friday will have already received $77,414 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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