Note: This table only includes salaries over $100K. The table is sorted by employee group with teachers (Unit 1) coming first. Within each unit, salaries are sorted in descending order. The top salary for FY2008 is $154K, but that is for a teacher on loan to the Maryland State Department of Education. The highest salary for a teacher working at AACPS was $131K. Parts of salaries paid by other government units, such as the state of Maryland, are excluded. MSDE reimburses AACPS for employees on loan to it so is included. Many teachers earn the same daily rate of pay on the salary schedule as these $100K+ teachers but most have a shorter work year. They may also not have as many additional pay codes, e.g., pay for extracurricular activities.
Since AACPS refused to provide this data to me in a machine-readable format, I had to scan and convert the data to a machine-readable format with a special software program. I have checked the results for major errors, but it’s possible that this conversion process resulted in errors.
Number First Name Last Name Unit Title Location Salary (1000s)
1
MICHAEL
ADAMS
UNIT1
GUIDANCE COUNSELOR
J. ALBERT ADAMS ACADEMY
101
2
DEBORAH
ALBRIGHT
UNIT1
TEACHER SPEC MATHEMATICS
DIVISION VOCATIONAL TECH EDUC
101
3
PATRICIA
ALLEN
UNIT1
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST
MILLERSVILLE STUDENT SERVICE CTR.
109
4
PAMELA
AVERY
UNIT1
SOCIAL WORKER
PHOENIX ANNAPOLIS
101
5
NANCY
BAKER
UNIT1
GUIDANCE COUNSELOR
SOUTH RIVER HIGH SCHOOL
101
6
SANDRA
BICKSLER
UNIT1
MEDIA SPECIALIST
MEDIA REVIEW & EVAL & PROF LIB
101
7
SUSAN
BRADY
UNIT1
GUIDANCE COUNSELOR
MAGOTHY RIVER MIDDLE
101
8
HENRY
BRANCH
UNIT1
GUIDANCE COUNSELOR
MACARTHUR MIDDLE
103
9
MARY
BRETT
UNIT1
GUIDANCE COUNSELOR
CROFTON WOODS ELEMENTARY
101
10
DOROTHY
BROWN
UNIT1
TEACHER SPEC TECHNOLOGY ED
DIVISION OF CURRICULUM
101
First Name Last Name Unit Title Location Salary (1000s)
All of the following statistics were provided by AACPS staff to the AACPS Board of Education
Unit | Number of Employees | Total Salaries | % of Total |
UNIT 1 | 111 | $11,770,056.72 | 22.70% |
UNIT 2 | 239 | $28,263,363.00 | 54.51% |
UNIT 3 | 0 | $0.00 | 0.00% |
UNIT 4 | 0 | $0.00 | 0.00% |
UNIT 5 | 60 | $6,634,023.00 | 12.79% |
UNIT 6 | 40 | $5,186,893.00 | 10.00% |
TOTAL | 450 | $51,854,335.72 | 100.00% |
Note that if salary + benefits (total compensation) were included in the total column, the number of teachers earning over $100K/year would dwarf the number of administrators. That’s because there are so many more teachers than administrators. For example, if only 20% of teachers earn more than $100K in total compensation, that would be about 1,200 teachers.
For additional statistics, see here. Note the dramatic increase in Unit 1 employees receiving more than $100K as a result of the Thornton Commission funding.