School district administration

As part of "Shedding some light on school district administration," an article in today's Stanwood-Camano NEWS, I did public record requests to the Stanwood-Camano School District, Arlington Public Schools and the Mount Vernon School District. The result of that was more information than I could possibly use in the story.
To help myself compare numbers, I made tables based on the provided information. I have posted two of them here.
Not all the positions in the tables are considered administration by the district. Counselors are certificated (like teachers) and the public information coordinator is a classified position (like bus drivers, food service employees, paraeducators...).


















The Stanwood-Camano School District provided me with a comparison of the total compensation for superintendent salaries for this year for the districts that Stanwood-Camano uses to determine Superintendent Jean Shumate's salary. Shumate's salary is determined by the Stanwood-Camano School Board. They examine the contacts for superintendents in other districts, and take the average of the total compensation. This includes benefits, annuity, doctoral stipends and vacation buy-back. Shumate's 2008-09 salary of $193,608 is based on the 2007-08 total compensation of the other superintendents.

Click on the tables to make them larger if you are having difficulty reading the numbers.