Administrators Pay Increase 2006-2007
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1. Administrators received an 11% pay increase on their longevity increments. |
2. Principal salary increases ranged from 6.8% to 11.3%. |
3. The Administrator salary schedule was restructured, resulting in variety of salary increases. |
4. Asst Principal salary increases ranged from 4.7% to 12.8%. |
5. Counting only base pay, longevity and honoraria/allowances, the superintendent and the assistant superintendent of business services each received an 11.6% increase. |
6. The assistant superintendents of human resources, curriculum and school services each received an 11% increase. |
7. $331,419 was the total amount for the administrators pay increase for this year only. |
8. A second-year elementary school principal makes 11% more per day than a 25-year veteran teacher. |
9. A fourth-year high school principal makes 40% more per day than a 15-year veteran teacher. |
10. Starting January 1, 2007, administrators have an individual medical cap of $650 for subscriber only, $900 for Subscriber + 1 and $1125 for Subscriber+2. This cap means that despite the increase in medical costs, significantly fewer administrators have ANY out of pocket expenses for medical, dental and vision coverage. |
11. Starting July 1, 2007, the superintendent and four assistant superintendents may choose to take an additional $14,000 (approx). in increased salary rather than health coverage. |
12. From 2005-06 through 2008-09, the assistant superintendents (not including the assistant superintendent of business services) will receive a total increase of 23.6% in their base pay, even if they do not receive any other raises till 2009-2010. |
13. The superintendent and the assistant superintendents are now about to count all their administrative years (whether in-district or not) towards their longevity. This equates to over $10000 extra to the superintendent and to the assistant superintendent of business services. |
14. The superintendent extended his contract through 2010. |
15. The superintendent, upon completion of his current contract and upon his retirement, will receive three years of the average medical, dental and vision cost towards health benefits. |
16. Superintendent quote: “Over the past 4 years, whenever a key (administrative) position came open, in almost every case we had to increase the salary… and even then we had to recruit heavily before we could get qualified candidates.” |
17. A first-year high school principal will be making 23% more in his 5th year of service; a first-year teacher will be making 10.7% more in his 5th year of teaching; an 11-year teacher will be making 8.1% more in his 16th year of teaching (assuming no other raises in those years). |
18. A first-year middle school assistant principal makes $775 more per year than a teacher with 30 years of in district service. |
19. A second-year dean makes over $11000 more per year than a teacher in his 16th year in the district. |
20. Board members stated at the December 7th meeting that this was “a fair plan.” |
21. Board members stated at the December 7th meeting that this plan didn’t cost that much money overall so it was easy to do. |
22. The December 7th board agenda did not include all these facts. Board members Mazzuca and Kitzes spoke against this item and voted against it, partially because of the lack of information given to the public. Board members Hausler, Sogge, Buck, Brannon and Yerkes voted for it. The item passes 5-2. There was no video taken of this meeting. |