Over 30 years of retirement, Erickson would collect as much as $4.02 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes McLean County Times.
The projection assumes Erickson received $84,423 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 3 years of retirement, Erickson will have already received $260,944 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.