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Thursday, October 2, 2025

Former state university employee Nemetsky paid in $74K to pension fund, could collect $1.63M in retirement

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Former state university employee Mary Nemetsky, who retired in July 2018, saved $74,377 toward a pension over 30 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Nemetsky would collect as much as $1.63 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Nemetsky received $34,249 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Nemetsky will have already received $105,859 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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