Over 30 years of retirement, Wegner would collect as much as $696,795, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Rockford Sun.
The projection assumes Wegner received $14,646 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 4 years of retirement, Wegner will have already received $61,273 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.