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At the top: A look at what Illinois Valley school superintendents make · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: At the top. A look at what Illinois Valley school
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  Speaker 1: superintendents make written by Matthias Werner. This article is being
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  Speaker 1: As leaders of public school districts, school superintendents usually receive
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  Speaker 1: the largest salaries in a school district, and LaSalle and
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  Speaker 1: Bureau County are no exceptions. Evaluating data from nine school
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  Speaker 1: districts in the region at the elementary, middle and high
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  Speaker 1: school levels, superintendents in the Illinois Valley make on average
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  Speaker 1: one hundred sixty eight thousand, eight hundred eighty four dollars
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  Speaker 1: in base salary. According to the Illinois Association of School Boards,
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  Speaker 1: the average salary for a superintendent in the state of
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  Speaker 1: Illinois is one hundred sixty three thousand, three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seventy seven dollars. Regionally, the average figure for superintendents in
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  Speaker 1: the Illa, Illinois Valley is lower than the average salary
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  Speaker 1: in the area in and around Chicago that includes the
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  Speaker 1: Caller Counties. Greg Sarver, president of LaSalle Peru Township High
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  Speaker 1: School Board, said that in evaluating what the proper compensation
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  Speaker 1: figure should be, the board compares the salaries of school
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  Speaker 1: similar to its profile. What we did was we looked
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  Speaker 1: at the conference schools and schools in our area that
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  Speaker 1: were around our size that aren't in our conference to
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  Speaker 1: see what their superintendent salaries were. Sarver said that got
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  Speaker 1: us to a salary range for us to advertise. Experience
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  Speaker 1: can also tip the scales when it comes to determining
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  Speaker 1: what a district superintendent makes. In the case of LP,
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  Speaker 1: Sarver said, the experience of any candidate slides the scale
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  Speaker 1: on the proposed salary range, with more experienced administrators leaning
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  Speaker 1: towards the upper end of the salary range. Some things
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  Speaker 1: that Sarver said experience does not influence are the perks
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  Speaker 1: and benefits of the superintendent contract. Those would be the
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  Speaker 1: same if we hired a first year superintendent or superintendent
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  Speaker 1: with twenty years of experience. He said. Benefits and contracts
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  Speaker 1: for district superintendents include retirement contributions, annuities, and higher levels
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  Speaker 1: of other employee packages like various insurance coverages, transportation costs,
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  Speaker 1: and time off for vacation, sick leave, and bereavement. Illinois
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  Speaker 1: Valley Superintendent salaries La Salle Ferrou Township High School District
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty Clayton Thasinger one hundred seventy thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 1: Ottawa Township High School District one hundred and forty Michael
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  Speaker 1: Cushing one hundred eighty seven thousand, two hundred and two dollars,
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  Speaker 1: Oglesby Public School District one hundred and twenty five, Michael
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  Speaker 1: Pillion one hundred eighty nine thousand, seven hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 1: nine dollars, Marseille Elementary School District one hundred and fifty,
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  Speaker 1: Brenda Donahue one hundred ninety six thousand, three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty dollars. Lasal Elementary School District one hundred and twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: Brian da Bernardi one hundred seventy eight thousand, six hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seventy seven dollars, Seneca Township High School District one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty. Dan Steckin one hundred sixty seven thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 1: Ottawa Elementary District one hundred and forty one. Marissa Darlington
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  Speaker 1: one hundred sixty eight thousand dollars, Waltham Elementary School District,
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  Speaker 1: Christine Eager one hundred twenty nine thousand, six hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty dollars. Hall High School District five hundred and two
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  Speaker 1: Jesse Brandt one hundred thirty three thousand, three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty three dollars