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Carbondale Reporter

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Former state university employee Mandat paid in $102K to pension fund, could collect $3.12M in retirement

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Former state university employee Eric Mandat, who retired in January 2016, saved $101,894 toward a pension over 28 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Mandat would collect as much as $3.12 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Mandat received $65,660 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Mandat will have already received $133,290 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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