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Thursday, October 2, 2025

Former state university employee Birjandi paid in $35K to pension fund, could collect $614K in retirement

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Former state university employee Hossein Birjandi, who retired in June 2018, saved $35,332 toward a pension over 15 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Birjandi would collect as much as $614,293, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Birjandi received $12,912 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Birjandi will have already received $39,909 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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