Superintendents are predominately male (75 percent)

AASA, The School Superintendents Association, has released its seventh annual salary study to benchmark superintendent compensation and benefits.  
    
The report, 2018-19 AASA Superintendent Salary & Benefits Study, was released in two versions: a full version for AASA members and an abridged version for wider circulation. More than 1,400 responses were received. 

Major findings include:

• Base salaries ranged from $42,000 to $397,953, with a median of $92,000 and $236,000 depending on district enrollment (size).
• Respondents are predominately male (75 percent), white (89.9 percent) and from intermediate-sized districts (300-2,499 students, 54.4 percent) regardless of their gender. Nearly two-thirds of the respondents (65.2 percent), regardless of gender, indicated that their district is best described as rural.
• Female respondents were, on average, slightly older than male respondents (with a median age of 53 to 52, respectively).
• On the issue of longevity, more than half of the respondents have served in their present position between one and five years, with less than 15 percent exceeding 10 years. Males report somewhat greater longevity in the superintendency than females, although the longevity of female superintendents has increased substantially over the previous years of this study.
• Few superintendents (15.1 percent) see their district’s economic condition as strong. Slightly more than half (56 percent) see their district’s economic condition as stable. Slightly more than one quarter (28.6 percent) describe the economic condition of their district as declining.