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Former state university employee Shabestary paid in $126K to pension fund, could collect $2.39M in retirement

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Former state university employee Nahid Shabestary, who retired in January 2019, saved $126,464 toward a pension over 26 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Shabestary would collect as much as $2.39 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.

The projection assumes Shabestary received $50,220 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Shabestary will have already received $155,226 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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