The bonus, based mostly on student test scores, comes on top of Saavedra's annual $302,000 salary. Add in other perks, such as his car allowance, and Saavedra's total deal lands in the $450,000 neighborhood.
School board president Harvin Moore said Saavedra, who became chief of the state's largest school district in 2004, deserved the extra money. Saavedra's bonus equals about 25 percent of his base pay.
The average bonus for a teacher this year was about $2,100, based on preliminary numbers. That represents about 4 percent of the average teacher salary.
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Please tell me what you fellow educators out there think about this."The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself." - John Kenneth Galbraith
