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Carbondale Reporter

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Former state university employee Spencer paid in $34K to pension fund, could collect $1.1M in retirement

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Former state university employee Craig Spencer, who retired in April 2016, saved $33,964 toward a pension over 8 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Spencer would collect as much as $1.1 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Spencer received $23,150 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Spencer will have already received $46,995 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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