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Monday, August 4, 2025

Former state university employee Ulm paid in $86K to pension fund, could collect $1.48M in retirement

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Former state university employee Donald Ulm, who retired in July 2017, saved $86,141 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

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

The projection assumes Ulm received $31,058 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Ulm will have already received $95,998 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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