Over 30 years of retirement, Hayden would collect as much as $67,903, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes McLean County Times.
The projection assumes Hayden received $1,427 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 3 years of retirement, Hayden will have already received $4,411 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.