Today’s Post & Courier features a front page story regarding the salaries of area superintendents. The publication also lists the top 5 earners in select counties and asks if those leaders are worth the cost.
I know many of you don’t have a subscription to the P&C, so I borrowed (see: stole with plenty of credit) some of the data and posted it below.
You can read the entire article here (assuming you have an online subscription).
Salaries (info from Post & Courier’s 7/21/13 issue)
National/Regional Averages for Superintendents’ Salaries
- $226,651 – National Average for districts with more than 25,000 students (All districts listed, except Dorchester 2 & 4, are above this threshold).
- $163,666 – Average for districts in the Southeast, including SC
- $161,992 – National Average for all districts
Area Salaries with comparisons
- $223,022 – Nancy McGinley, Charleston County Superintendent
- $219,305 – William Royster, Jr. – Greenville County Superintendent
- $211,191 – Cynthia Elsberry – Horry County Superintendent
- $169,621 – Bill Lewis, Charleston County Chief Operating Officer
- $167,123 – Joe Pye, Dorchester 2 Superintendent
- $163,800 – Rodney Thompson, Berkeley County Superintendent
- $162,816 – Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley, Jr.
- $124,400 – Sean Alford, Dorchester 2 Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and instruction
- $122,400 – Linda Huffman, Dorchester 2 Assistant Superintendent of Personnel and Administration
- $106,078 – Governor Nikki Haley
- $106,000 – Jerry Montjoy, Dorchester 4 Superintendent
- $92,007 – Mick Zais, SC Department of Education Superintendent
