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Friday, October 24, 2025

Former state university employee Bruehler paid in $80K to pension fund, could collect $1.48M in retirement

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Former state university employee Thomas Bruehler, who retired in August 2016, saved $79,598 toward a pension over 24 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Bruehler would collect as much as $1.48 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Bruehler received $31,152 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Bruehler will have already received $96,289 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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