Education elites are getting filthy rich!
Texas Public Policy Foundation
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has just updated its superintendent salary database, revealing some eye-popping new detail about public executive compensation.
According to TEA’s latest salary data, there were approximately 1,200 superintendent positions in Texas during the 2024-25 school year, which were either filled in a full-time or part-time capacity. For full-time administrators, the median superintendent salary was slightly above $176,000, or roughly $100,000 more than the median household income.
Among the top 25 highest paid superintendents, the average base pay totaled $407,739. For context, the President of the United States’s salary is $400,000 per year while the Texas Governor’s pay is only $153,750 annually.