“Clearly, the head of an academy trust has an important role, but I would argue that the person in charge of children and young people in Suffolk, Norfolk, or Essex, has an even bigger job and they are paid nowhere near £200,000.
Graham White is from the Suffolk branch of the National Education Union
- Credit: Graham White
“If you take Suffolk, for example, it used to have 300-odd local authority schools, and the head of that might have been paid £80,000-£90,000 a year, for running 300 schools.”
Others taking home pay packets over £150,000 included Dame Rachel de Souza of East Point Academy and Thetford Academy chain the Inspiration Trust - who has just secured a top Government job as children s commissioner.
“Clearly, the head of an academy trust has an important role, but I would argue that the person in charge of children and young people in Suffolk, Norfolk, or Essex, has an even bigger job and they are paid nowhere near £200,000.
Graham White is from the Suffolk branch of the National Education Union
- Credit: Graham White
“If you take Suffolk, for example, it used to have 300-odd local authority schools, and the head of that might have been paid £80,000-£90,000 a year, for running 300 schools.”
Others taking home pay packets over £150,000 included Dame Rachel de Souza of East Point Academy and Thetford Academy chain the Inspiration Trust - who has just secured a top Government job as children s commissioner.
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Warnings have emerged over a super league of highly-paid academy trust chiefs with 98 now earning more than Boris Johnson s £158,000 salary.
An investigation by Schools Week analysed data from trust s accounts between 2019 and last year, finding that 29 bosses earned a minimum of £200,000.
It also discovered that 25 chiefs had pay rises equal to or over £15,000, with an overall 55 per cent receiving wage increases - triple the number of pay cuts.
The Harris Federation s Sir Dan Moynihan was named England s best paid trust chief executive with a salary of at least £455,000, followed by Sir Kevin Satchwell, the executive head of Thomas Telford School, with a minimum salary of £290,000.
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