Independent Schools of New England. I used the Guidestar database which
supplies actual salaries of the top 5 employees (as well as board members -
that usually catches Business Manager and Head of Development) and an
average Faculty salary calculation. Faculty salaries at most of the schools
that I looked at were increasing at roughly the cost of living rate or a
little lower (around 3% - a little lower than Fred's calculation.) The
Headmaster salaries were going up (with only one notable exception) by
roughly 15% per year, leading to a doubling of salary over the last 8
years. I could not find religiously affiliated schools in Guidestar. I
believe this is because of different federal reporting standards. This is
very rough calculation because there are a number of factors that make it
harder to calculate: housing (boarding/Day), food, travel, supplementary
funds, etc. I noticed the dramatic trend up about ten years ago. It is
also interesting that the upward trend was almost identical in competing
schools and included the Head, Business Manager, and Head of Development.
There was a much greater swing for Technology Directors who show up in some
schools in the top 5 and aren't on the charts of most others.
JKT
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John K. Thurner
Ed.D. Ed.M. Harvard Graduate School of Education
(Administration, Planning, and Social Policy, Interactive Technologies)
(h) 617.489.5995
(c) 339.221.0502
email: thurner@gmail.com
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Fred Bartels <fredbartels@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had a little time this morning so I thought I'd see what stats on this
> question I could dig up on the NAIS website.
>
> Using the Salary Tables in the National Tables section I was able to find
> the following.
>
> The median salary of Heads, with inflation adjustment, increased 31.4%
> between 1999-2009.
>
> The median salary of teachers, with inflation adjustment, increased 5.8%
> between 1999-2009.
>
> Between 2004 and 2009 the median inflation adjusted salary for teachers was
> -1.8% while for Heads it was 6.1%
>
> These figures come from the 2008-2009 Administrator and Teacher Salary
> Tables. If I'm misreading these tables I hope someone will correct me. I
> used Table 1602 for Heads and Table 1407 for teachers.
>
> Fred
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Fred Bartels <fredbartels@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering if anyone has looked into historical trends in independent
> > schools in the ratio between headmaster salaries and the average salaries
> of
> > full time teachers?
> >
> > The trend in corporations has been that the ratio of CEO compensation to
> > average worker compensation has increased over the past 30 years.
> >
> > It would be interesting to know if a similar trend has happened in our
> > schools.
> >
> > Is it possible NAIS could gather this information and share it with the
> > community?
> >
> > --
> > Fred
> >
>
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