Stop Making Sense pt 1

"As we get older
and stop making sense... "
--the Talking Heads

Yep...the administration (some anyway) are getting older....and some would say they have stopped making sense as well.

What is wrong with the system when Tim Culver...or any district administrator makes more than the Governor....more then the head of the Department of Public Instruction himself!!!! That's the head of every school district in the state...the Super SUPREME Nintendo! But Culver earns more. There's something wrong with that, people. And it is our elected officials, the school board, who are the only ones who can stop the madness and start making sense. We're not saying these jobs aren't valuable. We're just saying that there's a reasonable salary line that needs to be established for these positions....and we may have crossed it.

We offer the following salary comparions, from verifiable sources. You decide....is there something wrong with this picture?

2008 Salary data (updated April 2009) obtained via Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel Watchdog Reports - state employees pay

Tim Culver SPASD District Administrator... $145,886^*
Michael Morgan___Secretary, State DOA......$142,109
Jim Doyle___Governor.......................$141,821
J.B. Van Hollen___Attorney General.........$137,622
Matt Frank___Secretary, State DNR..........$135,064
Tony Evers___Secretary, State DPI..........$132,809
Barabara Lawton___Lt. Governor.............$ 74,892
* includes $425/month "stipend"

Comparing other "high paid" occupations¹ to our District Administration
Surgeons......................... $218,610
Dentists, General............... $158,340
Phil Frei Business Manager, ADA $117,484
Lawyers ........................$110,700
Lisa Dawes Director of Spec. Ed. $109,586
Pharmacists....................... $109,350
Annette Mikula HR Manager .......$107,869
Alice Murphy Dir. of Instruction $107,621

¹ Source: US Department of Labor Statistics (Wisconsin) - May 2008

The only occupations paid better than Phil Frei are like surgeons (not just doctors) and dentisits?? He makes more than the average (notoriously overpaid) LAWYER? You gotta be kidding us!

The director of HR and Director of Instruction make a hair less than pharmacists--whose drug interaction knowledge (or lack thereof) could cost lives?

So the administrators want applause for being so kind as to "give up" 0.7% of their 4.5% "compensation package increases" to which they are entitled? What is the sound of one hand clapping?
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