Over 30 years of retirement, Emery would collect as much as $418,713, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.
The projection assumes Emery received $8,801 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 4 years of retirement, Emery will have already received $36,820 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.