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Carbondale Reporter

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Former state university employee Dunning paid in $62K to pension fund, could collect $870K in retirement

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Former state university employee Scotty Dunning, who retired in December 2018, saved $62,036 toward a pension over 21 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Dunning would collect as much as $870,059, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Dunning received $18,288 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Dunning will have already received $76,511 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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