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Carbondale Reporter

Friday, October 3, 2025

Former state university employee Pearson paid in $197K to pension fund, could collect $2.89M in retirement

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Former state university employee John Pearson, who retired in January 2018, saved $197,449 toward a pension over 16 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Pearson would collect as much as $2.89 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Pearson received $60,747 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Pearson will have already received $254,141 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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