MORGAN COUNTY — Six figure salaries, car allowances, big performance stipends — it certainly pays to be a school superintendent.
The same is true for most school administrators, more and more of whom are added to school districts seemingly every year. There are a variety of reasons more administrators are added to a staff list each year, oftentimes for very understandable reasons.
But the bottom line is this: Bigger bank accounts are found in the administration office, not the kindergarten classroom.
This is true across Morgan County school districts. The Correspondent has been analyzing the data to answer a few basic questions — how many administrators have been added to county school districts in the last ten years, how much they get paid compared to the average teacher and how things have changed over time.
In the abstract, the findings may not be surprising. It might be immediately obvious that a superintendent or a high school principal makes more money than a teacher.
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