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Carbondale Reporter

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Former state university employee McLaren paid in $45K to pension fund, could collect $760K in retirement

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Former state university employee Susan McLaren, who retired in July 2018, saved $44,705 toward a pension over 21 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, McLaren would collect as much as $759,634, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes McLaren received $15,966 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, McLaren will have already received $49,349 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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