Over 30 years of retirement, Taulbee would collect as much as $1.94 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Rockford Sun.
The projection assumes Taulbee received $40,868 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 3 years of retirement, Taulbee will have already received $126,319 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.