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Carbondale Reporter

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Former state university employee Durham paid in $12K to pension fund, could collect $567K in retirement

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Former state university employee Diana Durham, who retired in January 2019, saved $12,032 toward a pension over 8 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Durham would collect as much as $567,479, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Durham received $11,928 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Durham will have already received $24,214 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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