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Carbondale Reporter

Friday, October 3, 2025

Former state university employee Wilson paid in $17K to pension fund, could collect $252K in retirement

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Former state university employee Lynn Wilson, who retired in December 2017, saved $16,706 toward a pension over 8 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Wilson would collect as much as $252,328, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Wilson received $5,303 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Wilson will have already received $22,186 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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