Over 30 years of retirement, Ortega Ramirez would collect as much as $484,376, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.
The projection assumes Ortega Ramirez received $10,181 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 4 years of retirement, Ortega Ramirez will have already received $42,593 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.