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Saturday, May 24, 2025

Former state university employee Iqbal paid in $98K to pension fund, could collect $2.18M in retirement

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Former state university employee Mohammed Iqbal, who retired in February 2017, saved $98,384 toward a pension over 25 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Iqbal would collect as much as $2.18 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Iqbal received $45,808 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Iqbal will have already received $141,587 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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