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Carbondale Reporter

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Former state university employee Holder paid in $57K to pension fund, could collect $1.37M in retirement

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Former state university employee Cheryl Holder, who retired in July 2018, saved $56,866 toward a pension over 28 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Holder would collect as much as $1.37 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Holder received $28,789 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Holder will have already received $58,442 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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