[echelon_musk]

> 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?

[hrimfaxi]

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.

[echelon_musk]

That's mind blowing to me. I'd imagine they out earn a significant percentage of HN posters!

[ceejayoz]

They're CEOs of fairly large organizations, often managing thousands of employees and budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars.

[shrubble]

That’s spending that is all on autopilot; how much time does any CEO spend on payroll? Approximately zero.

[ceejayoz]

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.

[hrimfaxi]

And they get pensions!

[chaps]

....yes, half a million dollars per year is highly paid.

[criddell]

In Texas, the superintendent of the big school districts all make around $400k.

[ceejayoz]

Yeah, but a good portion of that is making sure they keep the football team going.

[criddell]

In the Dolton school district (Chicago suburb), their superintendent makes $530k / year. Is that for the football team?

[ceejayoz]

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]

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).