2010 School Distirct Salary Info

Number of
Number of District Number Number
Number of Executive Office of Site of
County Superintendents Cabinet Personnel Admin Teachers Total
Alameda 8 17 72 67 4 168
Contra Costa 8 24 50 38 5 125
Marin 7 9 19 22 13 70
San Joquain 3 10 12 8 0 33
San Mateo 16 21 34 47 14 132
Santa Clara 18 48 122 184 108 480
Sonoma 4 1 1 0 0 6
64 130 310 366 144 1014

Superintendents Low Gross High Gross Median Average

Alameda 151,139 331,887 216,976 219,313
Contra Costa 158,113 237,333 208,062 217,962
Marin 125,116 237,715 197,565 185,572
San Joquain 144,133 204,350 195,000 180,161
San Mateo 86,202 246,984 185,808 175,168
Santa Clara 154,600 297,057 211,561 219,175
Sonoma 115,252 165,043 128,039 134,093

Executive Cabinet Low Gross High Gross Median Average

Alameda 122,605 238,838 183,080 178,181
Contra Costa 114,409 196,388 143,469 151,307
Marin 121,755 191,238 154,597 151,420
San Joquain 125,106 222,198 147,860 160,204
San Mateo 120,044 190,084 152,337 150,600
Santa Clara 106,165 210,195 156,450 154,473

District Office Low Gross High Gross Median Average

Alameda 107,123 181,017 131,019 132,371
Contra Costa 103,454 148,587 125,729 125,587
Marin 101,392 147,521 120,432 123,982
San Joquain 124,459 144,108 127,950 131,475
San Mateo 107,051 159,765 130,479 129,933
Santa Clara 97,380 179,400 126,139 127,515

Site Administration Low Gross High Gross Median Average

Alameda 111,136 172,185 129,511 132,426
Contra Costa 103,064 132,795 120,700 121,499
Marin 116,497 147,198 128,480 129,073
San Joquain 112,643 137,197 122,904 123,996
San Mateo 117,360 166,349 137,310 138,864
Santa Clara 78,215 167,693 126,837 128,297

Source: Public Employees Salary Database, Mercury News as of May 1, 2011

Data was submitted by school districts following public records requests.
Approximately 33% of the school distircts submitted data in a format used by news outlet.
The top 1000 of the 81000 emplouyee records for school districts were used for this study.