Over 30 years of retirement, McPherson would collect as much as $1.35 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Will County Gazette.
The projection assumes McPherson received $28,278 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 4 years of retirement, McPherson will have already received $118,304 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.