Over 30 years of retirement, Gustafson would collect as much as $2.01 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Rockford Sun.
The projection assumes Gustafson received $42,273 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 3 years of retirement, Gustafson will have already received $130,661 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.