Over 30 years of retirement, McFarland would collect as much as $870,578, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DeKalb Times.
The projection assumes McFarland received $18,298 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 3 years of retirement, McFarland will have already received $56,557 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.