According to a report by RTE, €262,000 was the largest pension lump sum paid to a retiring member of the gardaí last year.
This payment was just one of a total 273 pension lump sums, totaling at €23.5m paid to retiring gardaí in 2014.
249 gardaí including one commissioner and four Chief Superintendents had retired in the same year.
The second and third biggest payments were around €170,000 and €169,000, while there were also ten payments over €135,000.
Figures also show the average payment to retiring gardaí in 2014 was just over €86,000.
And as of August 2015, there have 203 retirements with gratuities totaling €17m.
From the start of 2010 to August 2015, over €186.5 million was paid in lump sums to 1,946 retiring gardaí.