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Carbondale Reporter

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Former state university employee Cobin paid in $113K to pension fund, could collect $2.04M in retirement

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Former state university employee Laura Cobin, who retired in August 2018, saved $112,934 toward a pension over 28 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Cobin would collect as much as $2.04 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Cobin received $42,819 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Cobin will have already received $132,350 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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