Over 30 years of retirement, Irizarry would collect as much as $482,260, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Rockford Sun.
The projection assumes Irizarry received $10,136 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 3 years of retirement, Irizarry will have already received $31,329 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.