$103,000 for the food service director?! Is that a joke? The woman has a high school education and runs one of the worst food service departments on the north shore! Who does she know to earn such an outrageous salary?????

Exactly my thought! I don't know her, nor do I know her background, but $103K for overseeing school cafeterias?! It is interesting to read these salaries when you continually hear that people in education are underpaid. There are teachers in the high school making over $80K!!!

OMG, $80k, the nerve.....to be confined in that building with thousands of teenagers, no teacher should make LESS than $80k! Maybe that would motivate them to stay at in the district and help our children excel.

Question.
What are the following:
IEP Chairperson.
Adjustment counselor
Passos Avanti Preschool Director
ROTC jobs. Are they paid by the federal govt.?

Just asking.
Pretty good paying positions though.
Our tax dollars at work.

So the Peabody School System has how many School Psychologist's ?? 4 ?? is that Really needed ? I also question a Vocational Director at 95K per year ? Does Peabody Have that big of a Chapter 74 Voc Program to Warrant such a Position ?

All of our teachers should be paid high salaries to do what they do on a daily basis. Our Vocational director needs to be making more, she oversees the whole program and is responsible for hiring qualified staff and also the funding for all the supplies and equipment needed so that these kids can learn a trade. She has also implented some new policies for these kids and my hat goes off to her.

I also don't know the Food Services Director, but it seems rather absurd to me that she is making $20K MORE than the Superintendent who has two masters degrees, or $10K more than a school principal or school psychologist, some of whom probably (or at least hopefully) have advanced degrees. Only in Peabody...

But the problem with this list is most of the people on it are not in the classrooms teaching our kids. They are "administrative". I would like to see less housemasters, directors, and co-ordinators. Give the teachers who are in class all day really teaching not "administering" the higher pay.

My sentiments exactly Bonnie-Jean. Too many chiefs and not enough indians...and please (anyone not you Bonnie-Jean) don't get on me about this statement with the whole politically correct thing...

Just to shed some light on the situation with the food services director Janyce Harkins, she retired in October after 40 years with the Peabody Public Schools. Her actual salary for that job was $51,243, but she also received $52,740 in other earnings for 2012. That was due to an accumulation of unused sick days, vacation days or other benefits she was entitled to under her contract.