Over 30 years of retirement, Stayton would collect as much as $2.87 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes McLean County Times.
The projection assumes Stayton received $60,268 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 3 years of retirement, Stayton will have already received $186,282 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.