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Carbondale Reporter

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Former state university employee Guebert paid in $11K to pension fund, could collect $595K in retirement

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Former state university employee Barbara Guebert, who retired in January 2016, saved $11,362 toward a pension over 7 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Guebert would collect as much as $595,059, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Guebert received $12,507 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 1 years of retirement, Guebert will have already received $12,507 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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