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Thursday, June 26, 2025

Former state school employee Krebs paid in $212K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $5.22M in retirement

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Former state school employee John Krebs, who retired in June 2018, saved $211,841 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Krebs would collect as much as $5.22 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Will County Gazette.

The projection assumes Krebs received $109,768 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Krebs will have already received $222,829 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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