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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You sound clueless.  The job market for these roles is what it is.  Would you like this school to find someone who will do it for less?[/quote]

Not sure how much it is market driven but vanity driven. HOS didn't make anything like these salaries in the 1990s. They made comfortable incomes but something shifted in the last 20 years and somehow schools started to equivalate being a HOS with being a CEO. Same with non profits, they saw salaries of senior leaderships soar into similar territories. I see it as a form of insider grift among a certain class rather than anything market driven. [/quote]

it is absolutely market driven, because nonprofits couldn't hold on to good leaders paying them peanuts. Effective leaders left nonprofits after short stints because no matter how passionate you are about the cause, you still have bills to pay. Nonprofits couldn't find good candidates because of the pay. It took years and years of Boards asking "why can't we find and retain good leadership?" before they were finally willing to admit that pay was the root of the problem. It's taken another 20+ years for nonprofits to similarly recognize that it applies to all levels of staff, not just senior leaders and finally start paying people what they're worth, although there are still holdouts. A recent client of mine in a major southern metro really thought they were going to get a development director with 10+ years experience across all areas of fundraising for $50,000 (and absolute joke benefits, but that's another story).

Big nonprofits, including large independent schools, really do need CEO leaders. These are complex organizations. And what I tell my clients is you may be a nonprofit, but you're a business. You need to act like one. Is it possible that some schools are wildly overpaying their HOS? Yeah. But that's true at for-profit business, too. Even if you somehow successfully led a revolt at your current school and convinced them to pay a new HOS half of what the local market dictates, you'd be up a creek. High quality candidates wouldn't even waste their time applying. The applicants you'd get would be inferior in one way or another (or multiple ways!). At the end of the day, you'd be unhappy with whatever fifth-tier candidate you hired, so now you have to undertake another expensive search, and significantly increase the pay to make the position attractive to qualified candidates. Never mind the damage a poor HOS will cause and has to be undone--often an expensive project.[/quote]

Now substitute "Teacher" for HOS and change the numbers to fit.  You'll get the exact same result.

Except the FAILURE to act on that front is steadily hollowing out the teaching profession and driving promising young people away from it.

It's like spending $100K on a car then putting cheap gas in that wrecks the engine performance.  But will the privates ever do anything about it?

Of course not.  Teachers don't make headlines with new buildings.  We just do the fundamental business for the school in them.[/quote]

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