Here are MCSD’s highest-paid employees in fiscal year 2018
To help taxpayers know how their money is being spent, the Ledger-Enquirer has been publishing the salaries of local public employees, with highlights in the newspaper and the complete databases at www.ledger-enquirer.com.
Now, it’s time to publish the Muscogee County School District’s updated salaries for fiscal year 2018, based on the document the Ledger-Enquirer received this month from MCSD chief human resources officer Kathy Tessin. The Ledger-Enquirer converted it into a searchable database for our readers.
The database comprises 5,046 full- and part-time employees, an increase of 33 compared to last year, including 4,274 listed as receiving an annual base salary, a decrease of seven compared to last year. The salaries range from the low of $8,280 for a part-time culinary technician, the same as last year, to the high of $173,400 for superintendent David Lewis, an increase of $3,400 (2 percent) compared to last year.
Lewis is among 60 MCSD employees with six-figure salaries, a decrease of one compared to last year. The next highest earners are in the superintendent’s cabinet — the chief human resources officer, chief operations officer, chief information officer, chief academic officer and chief financial officer, as well as three chief regional officers — plus the director of the county’s public libraries, which the school district owns and operates.
Three of the 12 positions in the superintendent’s cabinet have been vacant since this summer: assistant superintendent ($126,500 when Rebecca Braaten left), internal audits director ($91,412 when Susan Taunton retired) and communications director ($78,294 when Valerie Fuller left).
After the cabinet, the next highest paid employees are the principals at Columbus, Kendrick and Spencer high schools.
Mark Rice: 706-576-6272, @markricele
This story was originally published October 29, 2017 at 1:25 AM with the headline "Here are MCSD’s highest-paid employees in fiscal year 2018."