Over 30 years of retirement, Cober would collect as much as $73,995, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Rockford Sun.
The projection assumes Cober received $1,555 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 3 years of retirement, Cober will have already received $4,807 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.