Over 30 years of retirement, Vitali would collect as much as $313,649, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Rock Island Today.
The projection assumes Vitali received $6,592 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 2 years of retirement, Vitali will have already received $13,382 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.