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Carbondale Reporter

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Former state university employee Coppi paid in $170K to pension fund, could collect $3.84M in retirement

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Former state university employee Carla Coppi, who retired in January 2016, saved $170,035 toward a pension over 36 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Coppi would collect as much as $3.84 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Coppi received $80,706 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Coppi will have already received $249,454 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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