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Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Former state university employee Kleiss paid in $51K to pension fund, could collect $700K in retirement

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Former state university employee John Kleiss, who retired in July 2017, saved $51,373 toward a pension over 10 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Kleiss would collect as much as $700,306, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Macon Reporter.

The projection assumes Kleiss received $14,719 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Kleiss will have already received $61,580 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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