Over 30 years of retirement, Ruggie would collect as much as $731,951, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.
The projection assumes Ruggie received $15,385 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 4 years of retirement, Ruggie will have already received $64,366 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.