How much do O.C. superintendents make?
May 27, 2010 Filed in: Superintendents
Scott
Martindale, The Orange County Register They are typically the first to be
blamed when districts grapple with budget problems, employee unrest
and community criticism. They draw ire and scorn for being the
highest-compensated figures in the K-12 public school system,
making an average of $233,477 in Orange County last year. Yet their
salaries seem to be lurching ever upward, by 24 percent countywide
over the past five years … When Joseph Farley – currently schools
chief for the Anaheim Union High School District – takes over as
superintendent of the politically fractured, 52,000-student
Capistrano Unified School District this July, he will be among the
top-paid, if not the highest-paid superintendent in Orange County,
making $297,887 annually…