A host of new information about salaries and benefits for educational districts and agencies here in Lake County and across California is now available to the public online.
State Controller Betty T. Yee reported that her Government Compensation in California Web site now includes 2015 self-reported salary and benefits data for K-12 education employers, including public school districts, charter schools and county offices of education.
The data covers 648,129 positions and almost $24.81 billion in total wages, Yee's office reported.
Yee's Web site also includes salary and benefit data for cities, counties and special districts, all of which are required to report salary and benefits data to the state controller.
Unlike those entities, K-12 education employers are voluntary reporters, Yee reported.
The State Controller’s Office requested data from 1,887 K-12 education employers, and 655 chose to report in the interest of transparency, Yee said. Of those, 569 reports were complete.
In Lake County, districts that voluntarily reported include the Konocti Unified School District, Lake County Office of Education, Lakeport Unified, Lucerne Unified and Middletown Unified.
For those districts, the number of employees, average wages and benefits, total wages and total retirement health costs was submitted.
The breakdown for each district is as follows:
– Konocti Unified School District: 630 employees; average wages, $28,407; average retirement and health costs, $10,515; total wages, $17,896,343; total retirement and health costs, $6,624,749.
– Lake County Office of Education: 341 employees; average wages, $16,689; average retirement and health costs, $4,278; total wages, $5,691,052; total retirement and health costs, $1,458,803.
– Lakeport Unified School District: 346 employees; average wages, $24,010; average retirement and health costs, $8,060; total wages, $8,307,302; total retirement and health costs, $2,788,608.
– Lucerne Elementary School District: 70 employees; average wages, $20,614; average retirement and health costs, $6,369; total wages, $1,442,949; total retirement and health costs, $445,817.
– Middletown Unified School District: 262 employees; average wages, $32,432; average retirement and health costs, $8,907; total wages, $8,497,301; total retirement and health costs, $2,333,679.
The top-paid employee in all of the districts was the superintendent. Each district's superintendent was paid the following: Konocti Unified, wages totaling $158,366, benefits totaling $30,892; Lake County superintendent of schools, wages, $132,595, benefits, $19,914; Lakeport Unified, wages, $148,288, benefits, $27,810; Lucerne Elementary, wages, $111,061, benefits, $19,891; and in Middletown, where the new superintendent was hired midyear, wages for that second half of the year totaled $71,514, with $21,148 in benefits.
With the reporting not mandatory, almost 70 percent of K-12 education employers did not file the requested reports or provided incomplete information.
Lake County districts and entities that did not submit reports included California Connections Academy @ North Bay, Kelseyville Unified, Lake County International Charter, Upper Lake Union Elementary and Upper Lake Union High. The latter two districts earlier this year consolidated.
Since the government compensation Web site was launched in 2010, it has registered more than nine million page views. Yee said the site now contains information on more than two million jobs in California, as reported by each government entity.
Users of the site can view compensation levels on maps and search for compensation by region, narrow results by name of entity or by job title, build charts and export custom reports or raw data.
The newest round of city and county information will be posted in June, Yee's office reported.
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