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Carbondale Reporter

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Former state university employee Jausel paid in $59K to pension fund, could collect $1.31M in retirement

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Former state university employee Mary Jausel, who retired in January 2016, saved $58,562 toward a pension over 27 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Jausel would collect as much as $1.31 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Jausel received $27,511 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Jausel will have already received $85,033 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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