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[quote=Anonymous]It's widely known that the Field School Head of School is overpaid, and  underqualified --Field is her first time as a head.  Its a tiny school of $20M+ in revenue. On a percent of revenue basis she makes the most in DC--curious since Field school so severely underpays their teachers..they were recruiting a head of the history department recently with a salary range starting at $85k-while she is taking in over $700k -If she was some kind of wunderkind raking in endowment and deeply inspiring her staff with a sophisticated vision--ok maybe it would be justified but EVEN with the most famous philanthropic billionaire in the city being a graduate somehow she manages to flub what any other head would consider to be a lucky starting point.  While many heads of schools do get very well paid due to the scarcity of talent,  the Field School head of school salary stands as an outlier with respect to gross overpay for a first time head of a small 6-12 school.

This is what someone recently wrote on another thread:

The Field School Head of School pay is simply out of bounds. Base pay was set too high and it was a mistake by the Board.

example: 
The uber experienced head of Episcopal in VA-- 
Highest endowment in the entire region at over $160 million 
$460k base salary running a $67M revenue school

Inexperienced first time head of Field School in DC
Lowest endowment in the entire region at under $500k
$477 base salary running a $21M school

The Head of the Field School makes higher base pay than heads at Landon, Holton, WIS, St Andrews -all about twice the size and run by much more experienced heads.  [/quote]

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