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Friday, July 4, 2025

Former state school employee Kulnig paid in $68K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.08M in retirement

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Former state school employee Jean Kulnig, who retired in June 2017, saved $68,214 toward a pension over 13 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Kulnig would collect as much as $1.08 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Kulnig received $22,672 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Kulnig will have already received $70,077 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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