Over 30 years of retirement, Drake Washington would collect as much as $867,301, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Metro East Sun.
The projection assumes Drake Washington received $18,230 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 4 years of retirement, Drake Washington will have already received $76,267 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.