Public school administrators like to argue that they should be paid in the high six figures because that is what private CEOs make. The problem is that you can somewhat justify private salaries because they are not paid to unproductive people. The salaries reflect compensation for those who make their companies profitable.
In public schools we judge administrators, for the most part, by test scores, graduation rates, dropout rates, etc. On that basis you would think that the Santa Ana Unified School District would NOT have the highest paid administrators, and from what I can tell, we don’t. But we do have a lot of administrators who are making a ton of money, at public expense, as reported in today’s Orange County Register, and as seen in the graphic above.
Most of our administrators are making about double what they would make in private industry. Check out the building inspector, Kevin Chris Rehmann. He is pulling down $151,480.00. No way an inspector would make that in private industry. According to the HR manager occupational profile provided by the State of California’s Employment Development Department, the highest paid construction and building inspectors make about $83K a year. This guy is making almost double the private industry salary for his position!
And check out what Juan Lopez, the District’s equivalent to an HR director, is pulling down – $177K. According to the HR manager occupational profile provided by the State of California’s Employment Development Department, the highest paid HR managers make about $147K a year. Lopez is being paid substantially above scale for his position.
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And an IT guy at $159k/pa??? Not even a manager? Outrageous in this market — that’s probably twice what he’s actually worth.
It looks like the affirmative action Latinos are making close to 1/4 million with pension and are bitching about the corporation rip offs.
As long as there are the Liberals in the power it will not change.
Wee need good depression….. Hopefully Obama and Brown will get us there.
I should add comrade sub. Vern, that this is a typical socialistic and liberal mantra: What is your is mine and what is mine is non of your business.
What I can’t understand is, what damage to your brain did you suffered that you cant see it. What intelligence do you have that you do not know how to count?
How many hard working self employed people make such money?… Huh.
How many capitalists do?
A local school superintendent told the “Senate Local Government Committee” during the government transparent meeting last month that the school districts did not need to report, or be included in any increased scrutiny, because they check their own backs.
This same man said that the retirement is capped at 245,000 per year, like that is some kind of poverty rate.
The cancer of governmental elite may be terminal.
There was a guy who posted here years ago who went on and on about California school districts. His rallying cry was We have 58 Counties (which for you Greatone, came as a surprise to Ms. Whitman!) but 999 school districts. He went on to explain that this means we have 999 superintendents, 999 assistant superintendants and aproximately 5,000 classified workers at good wages supporting them.
A quick look at your graphic shows $1.2 MILLION in Superintendent salaries only.
Too bad nobody except for Martin Wiskol reads the Register, otherwise there could be a revolt!
Unfortunately, it is far worse than portrayed above.
First, the salary figures above do not take into account the incredibly rich benefits packages enjoyed by each of these folks which typically average about 95% of their income. So basically double the above numbers to come up with the true equivalent private industry income. Incredible that PUBLIC entities put aside 90 cents on the dollar for public employees while private employers put aside an average of 5 cents on the dollar.
Second, in the private sector if your company doesn’t perform you are out of a job and you are held accountable. In the public sector, it is virtually impossible to fire someone. The risk associated with private entity executive pay is completely absent from the public sector.
Finally, there has been all of this screaming about the lack of support for public schools. The financial support has been there, it has just been sucked out of the classroom by greedy public employee unions and overpaid, underperforming administrators.
So what are we gone do about that?
Vote for our same guys next election?…… sure we are stupid
For exsample: Look at Pedroza he reelected entire SANTA ANA COUNCIL in spite of council’s failure to reduce SA public sector pay. He even claims that they did and will do good job. With dishonest voters like that there is no hope.
Fiala,
I singlehandedly elected them? Check again. They got a ton of votes.
Well it was your numero uno political blog which has, in your claim over 100K+ clicks per day, which is about what got them reelected. So I would say that it was your fault.
Furthermore, I am on diet because I am responsible citizen and will have to watch obese city council until they screw you, in about 6 months, or until you get some commission post and get dumped.
However, they are good example for fatso Mexican children and adult sympathizers.
So if they will take care of the city as they do of their bodies, than there will be pork in in public sector everywhere.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median salary for instructional coordinators is $56,080 per year as of May 2008. The lowest 10 percent earn less than $31,800 per year, and the highest 10 percent earn greater than $93,250 per year.
If you look at the SAUSD and look at teachers noted as TOSA (Teachers on Special Assignment) their so-called “Special Assignment” is to serve as Title I coordinators. Title I coordinators were positions that were created when the NCLB (No Child Left Behind) Act was put in place under the Bush Administration. In the SAUSD, the mostly handle the cases of ELD Students, CELD Testing, the ELAC Committee, and serve on the School Site Council to suggest Title I supplementary funding expenditures, and to assist in the development of the School Wide School Improvement Plan.
Most schools in the SAUSD are 5th year, or 6th year SI Schools, and this is why some schools a couple months back were taken over by the state. Schools ar given SI Block Supplementary Funding to try and improve school test scores, if after five or six years they do not improve, the state comes in and takes over. Some of that funding cannot be used to fund extra teachers, but it is used to fund them anyways.
Back to the Title I position, this used to be a full-time position, but now it is a part-time position. For example, a teacher may be a teacher for 3 periods, and then the rest of the day s/he sits in an office as the so-called Title I coordinator. His/Her paycheck increases by another sixty to seventy grand, education keeps failing, more money is being diverted from the classroom and the taxpayers are being ripped off.
(As for the purpose of the 1st paragraph, Title One Coordinators in the SAUSD make almost 40% more than the average!!!!!)
Good catch Jonathan! Love that State occupational profile database. Very useful for such comparisons…
i don’t know any teachers or school administrators so I have no dog in the fight. Without direction from Sandy Genis as to what the proper pay should be I have these thoughts: You need about 100K to live in OC because of high costs and what your net is after taxes. So if you are making around that after say, ten years, I have no problem. But you need to work full time. These teachers get two months off plus a bunch of other days also. Either cut pay since it is not full time or make work for them. Waiting for SAndy Genis to set us straight on this, also she needs to pipe in on Irvine council perks. All she does is pick on small numbers like planning commissions and water districts. Come on Sandy, step up your game.
Some one needs to keep their eye on the small stuff, so it don’t become BIG stuff.
Sandy Genis, pointed that out well at the public meeting.
deadwhitemale, it is the local city councils and water boards etc that are picking your pocket why you spend your time and focus on the governor or president or some other high and mighty.
Cook.
I made a Public Record request over the weekend to see what compensation infomation I am able to get from Mission Viejo. The Transparency & Accountablility report has some very interesting reading, including inside info from a former city clerk whom you probably met at the Public’s Right to Know hearing you attended in Santa Ana. I plan to quote from that released report after getting the response from our city.
Try getting that information from the SAUSD district. When I requested information about my school under the Freedom of Information Act I was denied the information. When I know for a fact, all the information is public record!
The two most opaque and secretive organizations in the U.S.: the CIA and the public schools. The stories your not hearing … the Register deserves to go out of business for lacking the ingenuity to crack that gold mine of shrouded news, of interest and importance to all in O.C.
In this time of cutbacks Administrators should be taking pay cuts even if temporary. The extra money should be focused on keeping quality teachers in the classroom.
cook: sandy genious spends time on the small stuff that MAY become big stuff. My city doesn’t have a water district, it just sucks up the water monies and gives it to cops and firemen instead of replacing pipes. I WISH we had a water district with just one job and easy to measure if they are doing the job and at what cost. as for the planning commissioners she complains they make 400/mo. How is that going to get bigger? This is all small stuff. She would be unfit for office in today’s world, micro managing staff and all. Leaders just need a vision and ethics and all is well such as at Irvine Ranch Water District and Mesa Water. Ms. Genious might focus on pensions and car allowances for council members first.
DWM, you should down load the report and read what that woman said at the meeting. She wanted to make sure that the local government people were cross-tabbed with all the earning from all the little government boards and commissions that they worked on.
It makes a lot of sense, especially when taken in with the comments by the 20 other people testifying.
I don’t know the woman, other than what she said at the meeting, so the
“micro managing staff and all” I wouldn’t know about.
Sadly, there will be no change to these outrageous salaries, because Santa Ana residents do not vote and they (SAUSD) know this. Therefore, they will continue to be reelected and since they determine where the millions of dollars from the state goes. They spend very little on schools and pocket the rest. Then they demand more money claiming schools are under funded. It’s an ongoing cycle.