[cecilpl2]

Almost certainly the value of pensions. There are teachers on that list making $65k with "benefits" of 1mm, which is probably the NPV of ~20 years of pension income.

[pengaru]

Doesn't seem to add up though, if you keyword search for "teacher" [0], the results are dominated by GCC with consistently elevated benefits. Once you get out of GCC dominated results, the numbers start looking a lot less surprising - until another GCC entry shows up.

[0] https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=teacher

[cecilpl2]

My completely uneducated guess is that GCC reports the entire value of the DB pension as "income" for that year, whereas all other institutions correctly report just the increase in value.

[pengaru]

Plausible, maybe the Superintendent/CEO would be willing to comment if contacted:

> Please feel free to contact me at [e-mail], or [phone].

From https://www.gcccharters.org/welcome/

[SilasX]

Yeah but it would only show that year’s gain in pension value.

[shusaku]

This is why transparency is often nothing but a parlor trick. The raw information we are given is useless

[_carbyau_]

This is why transparency is not just a "post it and done" process. It is a conversation.

At least with this much, you have a foundation to ask questions.