Over 30 years of retirement, Pleasant Gibson would collect as much as $2.37 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.
The projection assumes Pleasant Gibson received $49,776 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 3 years of retirement, Pleasant Gibson will have already received $153,852 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.