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Sunday, May 25, 2025

Former state university employee Nieminski paid in $132K to pension fund, could collect $3.28M in retirement

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Former state university employee Joellyn Nieminski, who retired in January 2018, saved $131,532 toward a pension over 33 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Nieminski would collect as much as $3.28 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Nieminski received $68,971 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Nieminski will have already received $140,011 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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