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Carbondale Reporter

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Former state university employee Wilson paid in $35K to pension fund, could collect $483K in retirement

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Former state university employee Angela Wilson, who retired in January 2019, saved $34,773 toward a pension over 10 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Wilson would collect as much as $482,985, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Wilson received $10,152 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Wilson will have already received $42,474 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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