Over 30 years of retirement, Ray would collect as much as $765,086, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.
The projection assumes Ray received $16,081 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 4 years of retirement, Ray will have already received $67,276 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.