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• Source: Boston Globe
• Date: February 11, 2007
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• Bylines: Matt Carroll , James Vaznis
• Topics: Education
• Data Types: Local Data
• Description/Excerpt: More than 80 percent of the superintendents in the region receive perks, which carry an average value of $11,000 . The average value of their perks has gone up 17 percent in the last three years. During the same period, base salaries rose an average of 12 percent to $139,500. With perks, the average total compensation is $147,500, according to a Globe analysis of contracts for 162 superintendents in Eastern Massachusetts. The 10 superintendents in the Globe's review who receive the most perks, worth $23,000 or more, come from four vocational school districts, each consisting of just one school, Assabet Valley, Shawsheen, Blackstone, and Whittier; and five affluent school districts, Andover, Newton, Norwell, Wellesley, and Lincoln-Sudbury, which is a regional high school; and Brockton.