Mississippi's 141 school district superintendents cost taxpayers $20.4 million a year — and 34 of them are paid more than the Governor. Enter your zip code or tap your county to see what your local fat cat takes home.
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Every district in the 2024-25 dataset, ranked by superintendent pay. Click any column to sort. Rows marked ‡ are public charter schools, shown for reference.
| # | District | County | Salary | Grade | Students | $/Student | Cost/Grade Pt | vs. Governor |
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Following the method of previous Fat Cat Reports, we convert each district's grade to points (A = 5 down to F = 1), multiply by enrollment, and divide into the superintendent's salary. Lower is better. Charter and state special schools are excluded as not directly comparable.
A superintendent of a few hundred children can cost taxpayers as much per pupil as a big-district chief — or more. Ranked by superintendent salary divided by enrollment. Districts marked ‡ are public charter schools, shown for reference.
Drag the slider or pick a district, and see the salary converted into the front-line Mississippians it could pay for.
Restraining superintendent pay isn't complicated — the House has already passed the bill once.
Part of a broader teacher-pay bill, HB 1126 would have capped superintendent pay at 250% of the salary a superintendent would earn on the teacher pay scale with equivalent credentials, plus any local supplement. MCPP calls on the legislature to reintroduce and pass the cap.
