Over 30 years of retirement, Giardono would collect as much as $465,670, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Rockford Sun.
The projection assumes Giardono received $9,788 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 3 years of retirement, Giardono will have already received $30,254 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.