Administrative Salaries - NEW JERSEY

Until recently, the President of the United States was given a salary of $100,000. It's now up to $400,000, but School Superintendents in Burlington County, New Jersey, are gaining fast.

August 14, 2008 - The state issued a report on the salaries and benefits for all the top school administrators in New Jersey. In Burlington County, thirteen of Burlington County's 42 superintendents earned base salaries above $150,000 this year.

The Burlington County Times has a graphic with the salary figures AND current enrollment. They analyzed the data to reveal the average salary of a full-time superintendent in Burlington County was $141,023.
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TT - Compare that to the median income for a household in Burlington county that is $58,608, and the median income for a family of $67,481. (Source: Wikipedia) In 2000, the population of the county was 423,394.

ONLINE: The story doesn't link to the "Plain Language Summaries" from the New Jersey Department of Education. You can find it here.

The Excel spreadsheet is 1.9mb. The annual number of contracted work days for the administrators range from 200 to 260, with contracted vacation days that range from a low of 12 to an average of 20+. And then there are 12 to 20 sick days and Personal Days that run from 2 to 5 days.

The salaries are base salary. They do not include allowances, bonuses, stipends, contributions to insurance and health care, retirement plans and - buyback policies for unused sick days and opportunities to buyback unused vacation (leading to early retirement for many.) But such figures are included in the spreadsheet.

Camden City Schools are one of those school districts that has been taken either over by the state or on school watch , one of five at the last count. It is one district that frequently makes the news. (Links are internal to TT site.) Here Here Here They have three assistant superintendents, all of whom make $135,000 in one of the poorest districts in the country.

We've said it before: School administration is more lucrative than drugs, prostitution or extortion.