Jackson Jambalaya

close enough for government work---

I generally like the work you're doing, but I think it's pretty crappy of you to post all of these people's salaries.

Its not creepy. Government employee salaries should be 100% public. When I lived in Tennessee, there was a database that anyone could go to and see how much someone made. Searchable by name, department, etc.

Hell, the school district posts the salaries on their websites. All you have to know is how long a teacher has been teaching and how many years they have been taught to get their salary.

Please tell us that those employees listed twice are not getting paid twice. Totally seems like an error they would make. Also, I should have been a Librarian. Sweet gig great pay.

State workers salaries are considered public. You can pretty much request any state workers salary.

KF, so you didn’t get the MDE takeover that you’ve been pushing for so long. Get over it and move on. Let Governor Bryant and the Jackson leaders workout a way forward and maybe you can withhold judgement until you see if this approach bears fruit.

Is there an efficient way to count the number of employees in the 1171 page MSIS Public Personnel Report?

Why such a wide range of salaries for the same position? For example, the salaries for speech/language therapists range from 30k to 60k.

So much for the myth that low teacher salaries are the reason for failing schools of JPS. Lowest teacher pay is at Davis Magnet - best school in state; lowest teacher pay (average) of JPS schools. Guess that myth is busted. Also myth that all teachers are poorly paid seems shot. $50, $60, to $70k is not as shoddy as we are constantly told.

45k for an elementary school Librarian? Adjust that annual salary to include what, nearly 3 months of vacation? Is the Dewey Decimal System really that hard to teach? Better than 60 cents on the dollar compared to this full time position:


Job Title:
Exec Dir-Library Commission

Closing Date/Time:
Tue. 10/31/17 11:59 PM Central Time

Salary:
$90,000.00 / Year

Job Type:
Full-Time

Location:
25 - HINDS COUNTY, Mississippi

County/Counties Associated with Position:
HINDS

Shift Schedule:
Day Shift Only

Travel Schedule:
Some Overnight

Time Limited Position:
No

Agency Information:
The Executive Director position is appointed by and reports to the Mississippi Library Commission (MLC) Board of Commissioners. Duties of the Executive Director include: statewide library development; directing and guiding an agency staff of 48; and administering an annual budget of $12 million; strengthening and enhancing libraries and information resources for all Mississippians; acting as library advocate with experience in communication and professional relationship development; performing strategic planning to provide visionary, innovative, and collaborative leadership for the agency and for Mississippi libraries; promoting an organizational culture that values customer service, teamwork, diversity, creativity, and accountability. This duties of this position require experience in the following: providing leadership in the library community; working with legislative and/or governmental bodies; knowledge and understanding of the legislative process, specifically concerning appropriating funds, committee hearings, and the legislative leadership in the House of Representatives and Senate; knowledge and understanding of the Mississippi Library Commission's relationship with local government and public library systems, especially in regards to how the Mississippi Code is applied and interpreted; communicating persuasively before groups, and delivering information and testimony to elected and appointed officials; building positive relationships with stakeholders (public library directors, other state agency heads, state and federal officials) and forging effective coalitions with other organizations and institutions; experience in all areas of administration; including budgeting, financial management, personnel, planning, and policy development; knowledge and understanding of current issues and trends in libraries; and knowledge of and experience in the use of current technology, especially in a library setting. The Executive Director will also develop knowledge of the entire state, through observation, participation, and studying collected data, and use this information to determine strategies for improving and strengthening library services statewide. To Apply: Please submit a letter of interest, resume, and contact information with a minimum of three references. Direct correspondence to Robin Hedrick, Human Resources Director, MLC, 3881 Eastwood Drive, Jackson, MS 39211; phone (601) 432-4071; email rhedrick@mlc.lib.ms.us. In your letter of interest and resume, please address how you meet each minimum qualification and duty for this position; without this, your application cannot be fully evaluated for the position of Executive Director of the Mississippi Library Commission.

Considering I filed the open records request two weeks ago, did it occur to you that I would post this regardless of what happened with the takeover?

A teacher should make $100,000 per year. No, I'm not a teacher, but I have been PTA president and has seen first-hand the way some of the students behave. When you have a tall 16 or 17 year old young male behaving aggressively toward a 5'5" 140 pound female teacher, it is very scary and intimidating. I've watched teachers spend part of their own salaries for teaching supplies and supplies for their students. That summer break isn't nearly long enough. I admire all teachers and appreciate the work that they do. By the way, I will not look at the attachment of their salaries because that is just TOO nosey. I don't care if it is public record or not, that's just nosey.

Elementary School Music Teacher averaging around $60k. I'll teach them to beat on a xylophone and sing The Battle Hymn of the Republic (of New Afrika) for that kind of scratch.

I'm not sure publishing every single salary is legal. You're entitled to the information from the school but the publication of the lowest level employees' salaries may violate those employees' rights to privacy.

1217, a good teacher might should be paid your suggested $100k, but that certainly does not apply to all teachers. Some should not be paid at all. But your reasoning about not being able to deal with the large 17 year old does not have a damn thing to do with their pay. The solution there is to call one of these many security officers in and have the disruptive kid removed. As to your not reading the report, it is quite possible should you want to not be 'invasive' to read without identifying the individual -look at position, school and pay. But if all other public official's pay and benefits are public, the pay to these positions that we are constantly told is minimum, should be investigated and discussed.

Wrong and there is jurisprudence on this issue.

I'm conducting an analysis of the salaries and will post it later this week. As usual, I always post the raw data when possible. No one complained when I posted it for all state employees several years ago or the Hinds County Sheriff's Department earlier this year.

@12:41 - were you a student at the same law school as Derrick Johnson and Kenneth Stokes? If it is release blessed under FOIA, then under what possible statute can it be prohibited from being published?

Did I read this correctly ?

Make 51k to oversee "Study Hall" at Bailey Middle School

Yes I'm singling out a white woman so this is not a racist post !

How old is this list? I know a teacher at one of the schools that isn't on the list for her location.

He King. Great info as usual.

I plan to pour over this data as well.

Could you please get the same info from DeSoto County Schools?"

Thanks

Frank, did you hit the tip jar before special ordering custom research? Are the Desoto County schools failing? What's the parallel Frank?

These are the actual school based salries, I have no problems here, it's the central office where the problems are.

I looked at some of the salaries at random and I came across a teacher at Lanier HS, a black female with 1 years experience, who teaches 7 periods of CCR English III and has an annual salary of $65,182. Wow!

Then at Jim Hill HS there is a black male with 7 years experience who teaches World History, SAT Prep, and Asst Coach and makes $40,127. Not as good, but still a decent salary.

Whoever said public/government employee salaries are readily available to the public is incorrect.

And suggesting that they SHOULD be makes no more sense than suggesting a stockholder should have access to the employees of the publicly traded company.

I thought teachers were on a state scale by years of service. How are some of these teachers paid $69k?

Rankin County people should take a look at their own schools.
Remember the girl straight out of college with not a single day experience who was given the principals job?

650, obviously in your libreal world view you have missed a very basic tenet in comparing government employees to employees of a publically traded company. If I am the stick holder you referenced, I invested in that stock voluntarily. If I don't like the way the company is being rmanaged, I can divest myself of the stovk.

My taxpayer status on the other hand is not a voluntary position; I am required to "invest" in that government operation and have no say-so in the operation except possibly at the ballot box every four years. In the subject case here, with JPS, I don't even have that option with an appointed school board that can mandate tax increases. But that begs the question of your basic premise - a stockholder and a taxpayer are not comparable for the degree of information is to be public.

12:42, By the time one of those three security guards get to a teacher's classroom, that boy could have beat the female teacher or another student to death. Almost everybody thinks everybody else's salary is way too much. Sometimes you don't need to look at the education required; sometimes you need to look at the actual work being done. I have a college degree and have a good salary, but I don't work near as much nor as hard as a policeman. My nephew is in the military. He makes virtually nothing; however, his work is dangerous and he's away from home for months at a time.

Why are many of the principals at the high schools listed as assistant principals?

516, your argument about the thug 17 year old you describe STILL is not a justification for the salary of teachers. Teachers are being paid to teach. I understand that currently in JPS many may be only controlling (or according to the MDE audit, not controlling) the facilities, rather than actually providing any instructural training.

Sorry, your argument about the teacher's security functions are not to be a factor in salary amounts, unless and until we start separating the students into groups - the ones who act like students and are in school for an education, and those who have no interedt in an education and are placed in the Parchment Prep facility. Then the 'instructors at Parchment Prep can qualify for hazardous duty pay.

11:45; The fact that you are a stick-holder (sic) and participate in that activity voluntarily has nothing whatever to do with whether or not you should be able to call up a website that shows the salaries of public employees. The point is, you can NOT do that, stick or not.

When will the open records request of Desoto County school district be posted? Surely, it was requested based on the comparisons you’ve made.

If you're going to post this, you should at least be sure that the information is accurate. It's last years and a lot of it is wrong. Titles, salaries, etc.

Why don't you read the post instead of throwing bromides?

The data was posted, unedited, as given by JPS. Period. The MSIS reports came from MDE and those are based on data entered by JPS.

If you have a problem with the numbers, take it up with JPS, not me.

How does one obtain this report for the most recent fiscal year?