HOS Salary and Teacher Pay

[Anonymous]

Is it true what they’re saying about how much the GDS HOS makes? How much do typical HOS is make? How much do private school teachers typically make? Is it on par with what public school teachers make? I know they don’t have to have specific degrees to teach in private school I’m sure there’s some good ones in some bad ones. Curious how much they get paid since they don’t have degrees all the time. Are they generally happy with their salaries?

[Anonymous]

Do a search for propublica or form 990 for any nonprofit to see what the head and the next 10 highest paid people make. It’s on the tax filings.

[Anonymous]

990s are very very enlightening if you want to learn about salaries at schools. The cathedral schools don't post them, religiously exempt?, but you can only assume they are in line with peer schools

[Anonymous]

A teacher with a master’s degree and 15 years of experience might make 75 while a HOS makes at least 400, sometimes 600 or 800 at k-12 schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A teacher with a master’s degree and 15 years of experience might make 75 while a HOS makes at least 400, sometimes 600 or 800 at k-12 schools.

Unless it’s GDS, where the salary is 7 figures

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A teacher with a master’s degree and 15 years of experience might make 75 while a HOS makes at least 400, sometimes 600 or 800 at k-12 schools.

Unless it’s GDS, where the salary is 7 figures

844k of cash salary
212k of other compensation

So yeah.

[Anonymous]

GDS teachers make $45k and max out around $80k. Source: Glassdoor


GDS division heads make $175k-200k or so (HS principal etc). Source: 990 form 2020

CFO - $250-275k

HOS - $1m

[Anonymous]

Insane

[Anonymous]

So, are people okay with this level of compensation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, are people okay with this level of compensation?

Of course they are! They get the GDS magnet for their car, silly!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, are people okay with this level of compensation?

Yes! They get to virtue signal!!

[Anonymous]

No way!! Maret HOS school is getting an exorbitant salary as well.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps salary should commiserate with college acceptances ha ha

[Anonymous]

I have a very good friend who is a head in a different city and he makes a over $750k. And I have to say I see it’s an incredibly complex, 60-80 hours/week job, which not a lot of people could do, or are willing to do. Expertise in education and child welfare. Safety and security. Public relations. Responsible for all personnel decisions, hiring and firing everyone from CFOs to teachers to bus drivers. Legal issues of all sorts. Finances. Dealing with parents, teachers, and students non stop. Admissions. The list is endless. Everything falls at their feet. They are the CEO. They get paid what they do because that’s what the market says they’re worth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a very good friend who is a head in a different city and he makes a over $750k. And I have to say I see it’s an incredibly complex, 60-80 hours/week job, which not a lot of people could do, or are willing to do. Expertise in education and child welfare. Safety and security. Public relations. Responsible for all personnel decisions, hiring and firing everyone from CFOs to teachers to bus drivers. Legal issues of all sorts. Finances. Dealing with parents, teachers, and students non stop. Admissions. The list is endless. Everything falls at their feet. They are the CEO. They get paid what they do because that’s what the market says they’re worth.

Their jobs are not harder than being the president of Harvard, who makes about the same amount. University presidents have to oversee colleges, graduate schools (medical, law, business, etc.), 1000s of students, faculty, staff, study abroad, federal grants, etc., etc. Why in the world a HS HOS has to earn the same amount as a university president is beyond me. And teachers in DC should be making enough money to save for retirement, a rainy day, and college (presumably a priority if you teach at a college prep school). You can't do that on $75K/year. What other HOS is earning that much? And if so, what are their teachers and staff being paid relative?