August 24, 2023

What Is “Deferred Compensation?” And Why Do So Many Heads Have It Or Want It?

Deferred Compensation is a method that allows heads to save more for retirement or other needs than they can save through 403 (b) or 401 (k) […]
August 24, 2023

Salary System Modeling: Thinking Through Your Decisions

Most independent and international schools have a salary system that resulted from administrators and faculty tinkering with the original model over time. The original model was […]
August 24, 2023

Selling Your Benefits: What Teachers Need To Know

Most schools offer an array of benefits, some simple, some elaborate, some costly, some cost-conscious, but what all schools seem to have in common is faculties […]
August 24, 2023

The Danger Of Inequities In Faculty Workloads

At some point, most teachers will raise the question of equity of workload both across divisions from lower to upper school and even within the same […]
August 24, 2023

Ensuring Rational Faculty Salary and Benefit Systems: Time for a Dialogue

Where to Start? Every school needs to develop a philosophy of faculty compensation that should be tied to the school’s mission. Very few schools have thought […]
August 24, 2023

The Latest In Faculty Compensation: Allocating Resources Among Your “Buckets”

Almost all schools want to pay their teachers more competitive packages to be in the running to recruit them in a tightening market and to ensure […]
August 24, 2023

Persistence Pays Off

Great heads are characterized by persistent focused leadership. They do not flit from one initiative to the next leaving earlier ones unfinished or in limbo. When […]
August 24, 2023

In an Economic Downturn: Intelligent Ways to Make Compensation Go Further

Faculty salaries and benefits make up 60% to 85% of the budget of most schools. In today’s challenging economic environment, boards are worried about managing the […]
August 24, 2023

Mission Based Compensation and Flexible Pay: The Challenge Confronting Boards, Heads and Teachers

Most independent schools have moved now from individually negotiated salary decisions, often inherited from prior heads, to public school type lock step lane and track scales. […]
Mission Based Compensation and Flexible Pay: The Challenge Confronting Boards, Heads and Teachers
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