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Carbondale Reporter

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Former state university employee Haywood paid in $70K to pension fund, could collect $1.79M in retirement

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Former state university employee Marilyn Haywood, who retired in June 2016, saved $70,078 toward a pension over 22 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Haywood would collect as much as $1.79 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Haywood received $37,657 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Haywood will have already received $76,444 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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