This... right here... is how it is done.

[TalkingDog]

Fresno Co Superintendent to take about $219,000 in pay cuts

http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/education&id=8321428

Powell is serving his second term in office. He'll go from making roughly $250,000 to just $31,000.

Powell says he's financially secure and will be able to afford health insurance through his wife. The cost cutting move is intended to save the school districts hundreds of thousands of dollars over the next three years.

"This takes about $830,000 and sets it aside. And so if we face mid-year cuts I can have the money ready to go and it doesn't affect our employees," said Powell.

/snip

I bow to you sir, for you are a wise and caring man.

[Scuba]

1. Next question: why is a Fresno Co. Super making a quarter mil?

[gateley]

3. I don't think that's all that unusual. Too much, sure, but not

unusual.

[ThomWV]

4. Better question, why do some state University football coaches make more than a million a year?

[seabeyond]

5. +1. nt

[coalition_unwilling]

9. Tee-hee-hee. The head football coach at the University of

Kansas brings in a salary and perks that is at least 10 times what a new assistant professor of mathematics (with Ph.D.) earns there.

American higher education: you just can't make this shit up :)

[madokie]

12. Good coaches make money for their schools

in more ways than just ticket sales too. For instance if you have a degree from OU, Oklahoma university, and someone else equally qualified are applying for the same job more than likely the OU graduate will land the job. Why you ask, because of OU's winning football program.

[coalition_unwilling]

13. Wow, just wow. I do seem to remember Christ casting the

money changers out of the temple way back when. But now I guess the money changers are the temple.

You don't find it in the slightest bit absurd that a college football coach can make over $1,000,000/year, while a new assistant professor in math or physics barely makes over $50,000? That's America in the 21st Century, I guess.

[rucky]

11. That's what tuition hikes are paying for.

[progressoid]

6. I'm surprised he's not making more than that.

The median salary for a Superintendent is 140K. We have a much smaller school district and ours makes 200K.

edited to add :puke: when I think about that.

[Initech]

7. It's pretty common practice that the supers make way more than anybody else in CA schools.

It's that whole executive privilege thing.

[Scuba]

8. Seems out of line for a public servant at the county level. Even for California. n/t

[BR_Parkway]

10. Yeah, considering we pay the POTUS $400K a year plus housing (and some food)

it seems that these others constantly talk about "oh, well he supervises over 1,000 teachers, 250 bus drivers and oversees a budget of $$XXX million per year" - and I just think, we pay POTUS $400K a year for doing a whole helluva lot more.

[gateley]

2. Wow - good for him! nt