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Carbondale Reporter

Friday, October 3, 2025

Former state school employee Herren paid in $122K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.7M in retirement

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Former state school employee Patricia Herren, who retired in May 2018, saved $122,071 toward a pension over 31 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Herren would collect as much as $2.7 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Herren received $56,852 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Herren will have already received $175,725 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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