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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish they would publish the salaries of the central office personal. This would be an eye opener. They are government employees and this is public information.

I used to just assume that the central office was small and people weren't paid much. This would explain some of the quality issues. [b]I was shocked when I heard that many make 160, 180 and over 200K[/b]. If you go through the web site, which isn't easy, you'll find many departments. Its a huge organization! If you know people in MCPS, you'll know that these jobs are retire in place type job. Life time security no matter what you do.

It is a promotion path for principals. There is a stack of administrators over the principals. I don't have a problem with a principal in a large high school making 140K. Its a hard job and there certainly isn't much help from the central office! I don't have a problem with the superintendent making over 200K.

As a taxpayer I have a huge problem with dollars I thought were going to education going to fund over paid/ underperforming administrators in the central office while the lowest paid staff that help kids get cut. [/quote]

How many organizations with 23,000 employees and a $2.3 billion annual operating budget don't have central/corporate/top managers who are paid $160,000+?

Maybe MCPS would be able to hire highly-qualified people who would do a better job for less than $160,000. (Maybe JPMorganChase would be able to hire a highly-qualified top executive who would do a better job for less than $20 million.) Or maybe MCPS wouldn't. But merely assuming that if the salary is $160,000+, the people are overpaid?  That's not how the job market works.[/quote]

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