How much do O.C. superintendents make?

06-01-2010

By Scott Martindale/Orange County Register

They are typically the first to be blamed when districts grapple with budget problems, employee unrest and community criticism. They draw ire and scorn for being the highest-compensated figures in the K-12 public school system, making an average of $233,477 in Orange County last year. Yet their salaries seem to be lurching ever upward, by 24 percent countywide over the past five years. Orange County’s 27 district superintendents have long been the targets of public scrutiny and the scapegoats for vocal critics, but the elected school boards who hire them and set their salaries say superintendents act much like CEOs of large corporations, managing multimillion-dollar budgets while being ultimately responsible for the education of half a million children countywide. (more...)

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