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Thursday, May 29, 2025

Former state university employee Ketelsen paid in $95K to pension fund, could collect $1.76M in retirement

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Former state university employee Renee Ketelsen, who retired in April 2018, saved $94,919 toward a pension over 25 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Ketelsen would collect as much as $1.76 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Ketelsen received $37,002 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Ketelsen will have already received $114,369 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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