Salaries Paid Professional Personnel in Public Schools, 1999-2000. ERS Report: Part 2. National Survey of Salaries and Wages in Public Schools. 27th Annual Edition.

This is part 2 of a 3-part report on a survey conducted in Fall 1999 of salaries and wages in public schools. The purpose of the survey is to provide school administrators and others concerned with the determination of salaries and wages for public-school personnel with data useful in comparing employee compensation in school systems of similar enrollment size, per-pupil expenditure level, and geographic region. This volume reports the annual salaries actually paid to persons employed in 21 selected professional positions by 704 public-school systems. These include salaries paid superintendents, assistant superintendents, and personnel in certain other selected central-office administrative or managerial positions. It contains 24 summary tables showing salary percentile distributions, means, medians, and ranges of average, lowest, and highest paid salaries. It also contains tables reporting summary data on the average daily amount paid personnel in selected positions and a table showing the number of responding school systems employing personnel in each category and the total number of persons reported. Following are highlights from part 2 of the report: average daily rate paid classroom teachers, $225.83; average of highest salaries paid assistant superintendents, $90,918. Included is a list of the districts that participated in the study. (Author/WFA)