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Article: School district CEOs command hefty benefits
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- Columbia Daily Tribune
- Article date:
- February 14, 2008
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When a Tribune report compared the base salary of Columbia Public
Schools Superintendent Phyllis Chase to that of Springfield schools
Superintendent Norm Ridder, local administrators cried foul.
Ridder's published salary of $157,566 - as first reported by the
Springfield News-Leader - included one month of car allowances and a
month's worth of health benefits but did not include a $45,000 tax-
sheltered annuity that boosts his total compensation package.
Hidden perks tucked into the fine print of superintendent
contracts make it difficult to get apples-to-apples comparisons of
just what administrators are paid, said Margaret Grogan, chairwoman
of the Educational Leadership and Policy ...