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Friday, April 18, 2025

Former state school employee Schroeder paid in $146K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.53M in retirement

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Former state school employee Barry Schroeder, who retired in May 2016, saved $146,009 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Schroeder would collect as much as $3.53 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Schroeder received $74,186 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Schroeder will have already received $150,598 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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