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Carbondale Reporter

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Former state university employee Kim paid in $114K to pension fund, could collect $2.33M in retirement

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Former state university employee Alan Kim, who retired in January 2019, saved $114,454 toward a pension over 30 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Kim would collect as much as $2.33 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Kim received $48,960 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Kim will have already received $151,331 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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