Over 30 years of retirement, McDaniel would collect as much as $2.23 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.
The projection assumes McDaniel received $46,773 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 2 years of retirement, McDaniel will have already received $94,949 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.