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Carbondale Reporter

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Former state university employee Peters paid in $71K to pension fund, could collect $1.26M in retirement

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Former state university employee Sarah Peters, who retired in February 2017, saved $71,047 toward a pension over 26 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Peters would collect as much as $1.26 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Peters received $26,389 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Peters will have already received $81,566 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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