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Superintendents are top earners in local government
BY EMILY BATTLE
The job of school superintendent is, on average, the highest-paid local government position in the Fredericksburg region, according to an analysis by The Free Lance-Star of top local government salaries. The average superintendent's salary in our area is $155,005, including benefits. The next-highest-paying local government job is that of county administrators and city managers, who make, on average, $140,360 a year in salary and benefits. The highest salary for a local county administrator is that of Stafford County Administrator Anthony Romanello, whose compensation package totals $183,056, including $16,500 in deferred compensation. The Free Lance-Star filed Freedom of Information requests earlier this year for the name, position and salary of every local government and school employee in our area making $100,000 or more. All salaries include fringe benefits such as annuities and car allowances. The area includes Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania, Stafford, King George, Caroline, Westmoreland, Orange, Culpeper, Fauquier and Louisa counties. In those localities and their school systems, 233 employees make $100,000 or more a year. ELECTED BOARDS SET PAY County administrators, city managers and school superintendents are all hired directly by elected boards of supervisors, city councils and school boards. The salaries of these top government officials are the product of negotiations between these elected boards and their desired job candidates. School boards in Spotsylvania and Stafford counties will both begin superintendent searches within the next year. The Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburg governments recently promoted from within to fill their top spots. The second-highest-paid local government official in the area is Fredericksburg School Superintendent David Melton, who manages the area's second-smallest school district after Colonial Beach. Melton, hired last year, makes a base salary of $169,520. His $21,500 annuity and other benefits bring his total annual compensation to $197,620. That's more than Stafford School Superintendent David Sawyer's $184,722 package, even though Sawyer's school district has nearly 10 times as many students as Melton's. Sawyer was hired in early 2007. Fredericksburg School Board member Pat Green, who has been involved in three city superintendent searches, said it's not easy to find someone who is qualified to be a superintendent in Virginia and who also fits well with Fredericksburg.
Read more stories about Fredericksburg Date published: 11/15/2009
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And as a public employee with legal duties under the state code who is paid by my tax dollars and accountible for the use of those dollars, he does have to answer to me and every other citizen in the county. so do the sb and bos reps. in the usa, we call it "government of the people, by the people, for the people" not ceo wannabes.
Mr. Hill's salary is NO WHERE NEAR a CEO salary. The CEO of the publicly traded company I work for makes well over a million a year and he's not even a high paid CEO, comparatively speaking. People ASSUME alot about the admin staff, but no one on here really KNOWS. Admins do a lot, but are frequently maligned by those who don't understand. But whatever, Mr. Hill and his admins don't have to answer to YOU, he answers to the SB and BOS. If you don't like it, talk to them.
doctor if the admin is doing a good job and if two way communication is part of the PR job, why aren't parents finding out about things like th e changes to recess and the admin finding out before if makes that kind of change just how unpopular it is? the average taxpayer in the county isn't making anywhere near what hill is -- and they do want to see value and results from the their money, not an unaccountible Wall Street CEO super with a golden parachute.
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