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Carbondale Reporter

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Former state university employee Kloeden paid in $99K to pension fund, could collect $2.57M in retirement

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Former state university employee Tonna Kloeden, who retired in January 2016, saved $98,828 toward a pension over 33 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Kloeden would collect as much as $2.57 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Kloeden received $54,113 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Kloeden will have already received $109,849 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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