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Carbondale Reporter

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Former state university employee Carney paid in $72K to pension fund, could collect $1.03M in retirement

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Former state university employee Ramona Carney, who retired in May 2018, saved $72,185 toward a pension over 16 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Carney would collect as much as $1.03 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Carney received $21,668 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Carney will have already received $90,652 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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