| ▲ | echelon_musk 4 hours ago |
| > highly paid school admin I would not have expected a school administrator to be highly paid. What kind of salary are we talking about here? |
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| ▲ | hrimfaxi 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Is 500k highly paid? https://www.illinoispolicy.org/see-what-your-illinois-school... It's the teachers that are shafted, not the admin/manager class. |
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| ▲ | echelon_musk 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | That's mind blowing to me. I'd imagine they out earn a significant percentage of HN posters! | | |
| ▲ | ceejayoz 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | They're CEOs of fairly large organizations, often managing thousands of employees and budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars. | | |
| ▲ | shrubble 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | That’s spending that is all on autopilot; how much time does any CEO spend on payroll? Approximately zero. | | |
| ▲ | ceejayoz 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | They aren't being paid the big bucks to sign off on a payroll run. They're being paid to manage the parts of the organizations that do that sort of thing, among others. |
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| ▲ | chaps 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | ....yes, half a million dollars per year is highly paid. |
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| ▲ | criddell 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| In Texas, the superintendent of the big school districts all make around $400k. |
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| ▲ | ceejayoz 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah, but a good portion of that is making sure they keep the football team going. | | |
| ▲ | criddell 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | In the Dolton school district (Chicago suburb), their superintendent makes $530k / year. Is that for the football team? | | |
| ▲ | ceejayoz 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Having never heard of Dolton before, I certainly can't speak to their specifics. School systems can be pretty huge orgs requiring significant management expertise; no one blinks an eye when a CEO gets pay for similar responsibilities. I've heard enough about Texas's high school football culture and the pressures on administrators over it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Stadium_(Allen,_Texas) for example. | | |
| ▲ | criddell 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | My kids went to a big football high school in Texas and it wouldn't surprise me if the admins there felt a lot of pressure around football. It generated a lot of money for the district and proceeds funded a lot of the arts programs (especially marching band which was huge). | |
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