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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Fine. If these administrators are so knowledgeable about education and management, one would think they'd be snatched up by DC's booming edTech sector. If an MCPS teacher or principal wants to make more $$$, they shouldn't have to leave the classroom to do so. We should cap admin / central office staff at same pay levels as teachers and/or find a middle ground and pay top teachers more $$$. Right now it is a joke in MCPS. All the cushy jobs are in central office and even young teachers are fleeing the stress of the classroom to become bureaucrats. This is insane. Our kids are losing out.[/quote]

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