Superintendent Bryan Johnson, the Hamilton County schools bigwig, apparently is close to getting a new contract. If approved, he will have gotten a pretty sweet salary bump while here – from $197,000 when he started in 2017 to $240,000 a year.
That’s an increase of about 22%.
Read that again. The contract will add another $23,000 to Johnson’s current $217,000 salary.
Despite a record-setting investment from the county, and multiple stories about how the system “found” extra money in the budget, Johnson and his leadership team came up with 2.5% raises – half of what was pledged when the system was banging the “property tax increase” drum last spring and summer – for the teachers doing the heavy lifting.
So everyone wants to give the credit to the teachers, but we’re giving the heavy rewards to Bonny Oaks.