Over 30 years of retirement, Carius would collect as much as $2.53 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Rock Island Today.
The projection assumes Carius received $53,216 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 4 years of retirement, Carius will have already received $222,634 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.