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Monday, April 21, 2025

Former state school employee Wunderlich paid in $167K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.79M in retirement

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Former state school employee Maureen Wunderlich, who retired in May 2017, saved $167,317 toward a pension over 27 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Wunderlich would collect as much as $3.79 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DuPage Policy Journal.

The projection assumes Wunderlich received $79,699 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Wunderlich will have already received $246,342 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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