Over 30 years of retirement, Catan would collect as much as $4 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes McHenry Times.
The projection assumes Catan received $84,137 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 3 years of retirement, Catan will have already received $260,059 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.