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Saturday, May 24, 2025

Former state university employee Dopkeen paid in $35K to pension fund, could collect $657K in retirement

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Former state university employee Jonathan Dopkeen, who retired in January 2017, saved $34,640 toward a pension over 6 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Dopkeen would collect as much as $656,963, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Dopkeen received $13,808 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Dopkeen will have already received $42,679 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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