Highest paid public employees in AZ

[SassyLady]

Highest paid makes over $3,000,000

https://azbigmedia.com/business/10-h...es-in-arizona/

[Kathianne]

Highest paid makes over $3,000,000

https://azbigmedia.com/business/10-h...es-in-arizona/

Well, with such a stellar education system I guess it would follow into upper education sports. Egads.

[Kathianne]

Wow, we got storms!

[SassyLady]

Wow, we got storms!

Massive. I feel like I'm at a disco party. The lightning is not coming down in bolts. It's strobing... constantly flashing ... and just a little bit of rain. Before that we had high winds and a haboob dust storm. Could see the dirt rolling in. Couldn't see the mountain behind us .. too much dust.

Good thing is temperature went from 101° to 78° in less than 15 minutes.

[Abbey Marie]

Massive. I feel like I'm at a disco party. The lightning is not coming down in bolts. It's strobing... constantly flashing ... and just a little bit of rain. Before that we had high winds and a haboob dust storm. Could see the dirt rolling in. Couldn't see the mountain behind us .. too much dust.

Good thing is temperature went from 101° to 78° in less than 15 minutes.

My SIL in Casa Grande was telling me about the dust storm earlier. So weird!

[tailfins]

Massive. I feel like I'm at a disco party. The lightning is not coming down in bolts. It's strobing... constantly flashing ... and just a little bit of rain. Before that we had high winds and a haboob dust storm. Could see the dirt rolling in. Couldn't see the mountain behind us .. too much dust.

Good thing is temperature went from 101° to 78° in less than 15 minutes.

Darn you! Your mention of a "Haboob Dust Storm" makes me want to play Civilization VI.

[fj1200]

Highest paid makes over $3,000,000

https://azbigmedia.com/business/10-h...es-in-arizona/

Meh. Mostly head coaches. Overall not surprising.

[SassyLady]

Meh. Mostly head coaches. Overall not surprising.

Public schools (K-12) are under funded and the university athletic programs are basically the tryouts for professional sports. I still have a hard time understanding why so much money is spent on sports.

[fj1200]

Public schools (K-12) are under funded and the university athletic programs are basically the tryouts for professional sports. I still have a hard time understanding why so much money is spent on sports.

The two don't really relate to each other. Money is spent on sports because sports brings in large amounts of revenue. There are 35 other college football head coaches who make more than Herm Edwards. And most college athletes have little expectation of a professional career. There may be other arguments against college athletics but I don't think this one goes anywhere.

[SassyLady]

The two don't really relate to each other. Money is spent on sports because sports brings in large amounts of revenue. There are 35 other college football head coaches who make more than Herm Edwards. And most college athletes have little expectation of a professional career. There may be other arguments against college athletics but I don't think this one goes anywhere.

I'm talking specifically about Arizona. The public schools are underfunded. College coaches are overpaid. They are governmental employees.

[fj1200]

I'm talking specifically about Arizona. The public schools are underfunded. College coaches are overpaid. They are governmental employees.

Then you have complaints without a solution. Arizona is probably not the only state with underfunded schools. College coaches are a national market and that's how much they earn. They, and others on the list, are governmental employees who run multi-million dollar organizations and can command high dollar pay packages. You can knock them down to whatever you believe to be not overpaid and Arizona will still have underfunded schools. You will also be limiting your talent pool to fill those positions.

[Gunny]

Coincidentally, I caught in a little blurb yesterday Coaches are the highest paid state employees in 39 states. I don't get it either. Pro football players when I was a kid had day jobs. The NFL paid so poorly quite a few transitioned into pro wrestling. It paid 5x as much.

One of the new laws here (in TX) this year is students can now make money on their "likenesses". When a football player can make more money than the President of the United States, the result is glaringly obvious.

[fj1200]

Coincidentally, I caught in a little blurb yesterday Coaches are the highest paid state employees in 39 states. I don't get it either. Pro football players when I was a kid had day jobs. The NFL paid so poorly quite a few transitioned into pro wrestling. It paid 5x as much.

One of the new laws here (in TX) this year is students can now make money on their "likenesses". When a football player can make more money than the President of the United States, the result is glaringly obvious.

Sports is big(ger) business these days.

[Abbey Marie]

Sassy, can you give some more examples of how the schools are under-funded there? I really want to understand. I don’t doubt you. Arizona may be different. Where we live the county and the state and the feds throw all kinds of money at the schools, give them free laptops, free breakfast and lunch all year long, bus the inner city kids to the suburbs and vice versa, yet things don’t improve.
I began to see that it isn’t a money problem. It’s either a “bad examples at home” problem, a “no father at home” problem, or both. IMO, there is no neighborhood so bad that having a family that values education and respects authority cannot overcome its influence.

[Kathianne]

Sassy, can you give some more examples of how the schools are under-funded there? I really want to understand. I don’t doubt you. Arizona may be different. Where we live the county and the state and the feds throw all kinds of money at the schools, give them free laptops, free breakfast and lunch all year long, bus the inner city kids to the suburbs and vice versa, yet things don’t improve.
I began to see that it isn’t a money problem. It’s either a “bad examples at home” problem, a “no father at home” problem, or both. IMO, there is no neighborhood so bad that having a family that values education and respects authority cannot overcome its influence.

Cost per pupil in my current hs district: $9500
Mr previous has district now: $19k
Almost exactly double.