Over 30 years of retirement, Peterson Karlan would collect as much as $2.48 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes McLean County Times.
The projection assumes Peterson Karlan received $52,116 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 4 years of retirement, Peterson Karlan will have already received $218,032 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.