Over 30 years of retirement, Shearer would collect as much as $1.43 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Southern Illinois News.
The projection assumes Shearer received $29,962 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 3 years of retirement, Shearer will have already received $92,610 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.