Does the HOS at Potomac Really Make This Much??

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Anonymous wrote:Im pretty sure he lives on campus

Nope. Quite a few of the executive team members do, and the fellows live on campus, but he lives in his private home in McLean.

What are you talking about. No faculty lives members live on campus at Potomac, including the HOS. As a Potomac parent I personally find his salary obscene. He is underwhelming at best and a mediocre public speaker and HOS. Part of the old guard where white male administrators are under skilled and overpaid.

Potomac owns at least three houses adjacent to campus. Assistant HoS lives in one, head of US lives in one, football coach lives in one, debate teacher lives in one, and I believe some of their interns/fellows live in one. I think there is some sharing scenarios, but several faculty have housing.

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Anonymous wrote:True. Placement is a dumb word. And it was lazy of me to use that word following somebody else’s use of it, without saying the following: The kids have to get themselves into universities, but college admissions offices certainly know the reputations of each private school in DC. And your school’s college counselors are charged with creating relationships with those admissions offices and touting the curriculum and quality of the school they represent. So the universities to which kids are accepted is a feather in the cap of the school, and a source of pride for the teachers, counselors and administrators, and certainly one measure of a Head’s success.

No, it's a measure of success of the students, teachers, college counselors. The only thing the head of school more than likely did was hire the teachers and counselors.

The point is "placement" is a horrible word. It implies active work by the school to secure positions in prestigious colleges for their students, with a large degree of influence. Schools can tout acceptances and matriculations. The head hired the teachers and counselors, but that's his or her job. To say the head doesn't share in the success of the acceptances and matriculations is like saying the GM of a football team doesn't get credit for a Super Bowl cause he never put on a uniform. Moreover, a head is responsible for the daily and yearly success of the school in every way shape and form.

The head should receive credit, but the amount of credit they actually deserve, which should be significantly less than the people who actually did the difficult work, including the students, their teachers, and their college counselors. The problem is that schools are following the corrupt corporate model in which CEOs are paid hundreds if not thousands of dollars an hour, while the people doing the actual work are paid a pittance. This is how people naturalize inequality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Im pretty sure he lives on campus

Nope. Quite a few of the executive team members do, and the fellows live on campus, but he lives in his private home in McLean.

What are you talking about. No faculty lives members live on campus at Potomac, including the HOS. As a Potomac parent I personally find his salary obscene. He is underwhelming at best and a mediocre public speaker and HOS. Part of the old guard where white male administrators are under skilled and overpaid.

Potomac owns at least three houses adjacent to campus. Assistant HoS lives in one, head of US lives in one, football coach lives in one, debate teacher lives in one, and I believe some of their interns/fellows live in one. I think there is some sharing scenarios, but several faculty have housing.

The heads of MS, IS, US and admissions live in school owned houses. The assis COO (who is also the football coach and is leaving) has one bc the head of LS and HOS did not want to move to campus. On the other side of campus in the historic house (which was donated by an alum family when the parents passed away), the teaching fellows live in a group house situation. There’s at least one other house in evermay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:True. Placement is a dumb word. And it was lazy of me to use that word following somebody else’s use of it, without saying the following: The kids have to get themselves into universities, but college admissions offices certainly know the reputations of each private school in DC. And your school’s college counselors are charged with creating relationships with those admissions offices and touting the curriculum and quality of the school they represent. So the universities to which kids are accepted is a feather in the cap of the school, and a source of pride for the teachers, counselors and administrators, and certainly one measure of a Head’s success.

No, it's a measure of success of the students, teachers, college counselors. The only thing the head of school more than likely did was hire the teachers and counselors.

The point is "placement" is a horrible word. It implies active work by the school to secure positions in prestigious colleges for their students, with a large degree of influence. Schools can tout acceptances and matriculations. The head hired the teachers and counselors, but that's his or her job. To say the head doesn't share in the success of the acceptances and matriculations is like saying the GM of a football team doesn't get credit for a Super Bowl cause he never put on a uniform. Moreover, a head is responsible for the daily and yearly success of the school in every way shape and form.

The head should receive credit, but the amount of credit they actually deserve, which should be significantly less than the people who actually did the difficult work, including the students, their teachers, and their college counselors. The problem is that schools are following the corrupt corporate model in which CEOs are paid hundreds if not thousands of dollars an hour, while the people doing the actual work are paid a pittance. This is how people naturalize inequality.

If he takes credit for the good teachers, he should take accountability for the horrible ones.

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Anonymous wrote:The HOS is a fundraising job and it’s not easy. Teachers are definitely underpaid but they don’t have to solicit people to raise millions of dollars every single year. If a HoS doesn’t raise money, the school can’t operate and goes out of business. A lot of the schools ability to raise money is based on happy parents and happy alumni. I promise you have no idea how hard the job is and how much it is dependent on achieving clearly defined results. You can’t BS your way through the job.

No one is saying it's not a hard job. Cleaning public bathrooms is a hard job. But just because a job is hard doesn't mean that it justifies the salary.

there are salespeople in this area who clear 800k. There are CEOs of 200 person companies (same size as Potomac) who clear 2mm. Chill out.

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Anonymous wrote:The HOS is a fundraising job and it’s not easy. Teachers are definitely underpaid but they don’t have to solicit people to raise millions of dollars every single year. If a HoS doesn’t raise money, the school can’t operate and goes out of business. A lot of the schools ability to raise money is based on happy parents and happy alumni. I promise you have no idea how hard the job is and how much it is dependent on achieving clearly defined results. You can’t BS your way through the job.

No one is saying it's not a hard job. Cleaning public bathrooms is a hard job. But just because a job is hard doesn't mean that it justifies the salary.

there are salespeople in this area who clear 800k. There are CEOs of 200 person companies (same size as Potomac) who clear 2mm. Chill out.

Those are for-profit companies. Think harder.

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I love how people keep claiming this is the market when it’s clearly not. There a plenty of education administrators from K-12 to the university level who don’t make near this much. There are plenty of executive directors in nonprofits that don’t make this much. As has already been pointed out, even AHOs doesn’t make near this much.

This isn’t the market. If it was we would see a larger share of HOS and Superintendent salaries rising to this level, but we don’t.

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Because so many independent schools are church schools, their 990s are not public. It's hard to get a sense of what the market really is.

However, in my southern city, the top 3 independent k-12 schools are all unaffiliated, so their 990s are online. One head of school makes less than Potomac's, one right about the same, and one makes more--which made me do a double take, honestly. I don't think he is worth that at all.

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Anonymous wrote:That’s more than the presidents of either UVA or UMD. Folks are getting swindled.

Very swindled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The HOS is a fundraising job and it’s not easy. Teachers are definitely underpaid but they don’t have to solicit people to raise millions of dollars every single year. If a HoS doesn’t raise money, the school can’t operate and goes out of business. A lot of the schools ability to raise money is based on happy parents and happy alumni. I promise you have no idea how hard the job is and how much it is dependent on achieving clearly defined results. You can’t BS your way through the job.

No one is saying it's not a hard job. Cleaning public bathrooms is a hard job. But just because a job is hard doesn't mean that it justifies the salary.

there are salespeople in this area who clear 800k. There are CEOs of 200 person companies (same size as Potomac) who clear 2mm. Chill out.

Those are for-profit companies. Think harder.

Plenty of non profit execs making that much. And they don't have to be at the biggest either. Ed and Health are two that compete for talent with for profit and threefore have pay packages that align.

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/million-dollar-compensation-nonprofit-ceos/.
https://www.charitywatch.org/nonprofit-compensation-packages-of-1-million-or-more
https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/subscriber-only/2023/11/17/highest-paid-501c3-nonprofit-executives-in-greater.html

About 2,700 employees of 501(c)(3) nonprofits received annual compensation of more than $1 million in 2014, according to a study of IRS Form 990 returns performed by the Wall Street Journal. This is about one-third more than received $1 million or more in 2011. As might be expected, the “eds and meds” led the list. Five nonprofits paid $10 million or more to their CEOs; four out of five were healthcare systems. The fifth was the Harvard Management Company, which manages the Harvard University endowment and has been the subject of persistent leadership turmoil. Overall, three-quarters of the high-paying nonprofits were in the healthcare sector, with private colleges and universities making up another ten percent. However, some of the most generous organizations weren’t the largest.

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Anonymous wrote:https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/540562160

$850k?? Is this normal? Is this accurate?

This is similar to GDS...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/540562160

$850k?? Is this normal? Is this accurate?

Yes that’s normal for an east coast or wash DC k-12 private school HoS.

Go pull the job spec & quals and plot it out.

[Anonymous]

Equity for all!

We’re all the same!

Socialism rules!

Work hard, get money!

Universal income for USA!

Free stuff for all! Healthcare, transport, school, safety!

[Anonymous]

Seems about right considering how much fools spend to send their darling kids...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That’s more than the presidents of either UVA or UMD. Folks are getting swindled.

Very swindled.

Just a tad haha. Lots of big dummies out there.