Over 30 years of retirement, McNeill would collect as much as $2.96 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.
The projection assumes McNeill received $62,238 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 2 years of retirement, McNeill will have already received $126,343 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.