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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Former state university employee Kumar paid in $47K to pension fund, could collect $2.42M in retirement

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Former state university employee Jai Kumar, who retired in August 2017, saved $47,400 toward a pension over 5 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Kumar would collect as much as $2.42 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Kumar received $50,822 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 1 years of retirement, Kumar will have already received $50,822 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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