Over 30 years of retirement, Flowers would collect as much as $831,077, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Southern Illinois News.
The projection assumes Flowers received $17,468 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 3 years of retirement, Flowers will have already received $53,992 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.