Over 30 years of retirement, Mazella would collect as much as $1.38 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.
The projection assumes Mazella received $29,080 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 4 years of retirement, Mazella will have already received $121,660 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.