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Saturday, June 14, 2025

Former state school employee Rothermel paid in $95K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.59M in retirement

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Former state school employee Heidi Rothermel, who retired in June 2018, saved $94,929 toward a pension over 21 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Rothermel would collect as much as $1.59 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes McHenry Times.

The projection assumes Rothermel received $33,487 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Rothermel will have already received $103,506 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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