Over 30 years of retirement, Wear would collect as much as $1.44 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.
The projection assumes Wear received $30,276 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 5 years of retirement, Wear will have already received $160,741 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.