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Carbondale Reporter

Friday, October 3, 2025

Former state university employee Bottrell paid in $21K to pension fund, could collect $340K in retirement

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Former state university employee Marilyn Bottrell, who retired in May 2018, saved $20,836 toward a pension over 10 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Bottrell would collect as much as $340,464, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Bottrell received $7,156 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Bottrell will have already received $22,119 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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