Over 30 years of retirement, James would collect as much as $777,207, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.
The projection assumes James received $16,336 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 3 years of retirement, James will have already received $50,493 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.