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I was wondering what the salaries are like for administrators overseas. Obviously it will vary from school to school but does anyone know salaries of specific schools or what principals and VP's make in comparison to teachers? What about additional benefits? I am not sure how to go about getting this info without joining Search for their data bank?

Jasmine wrote:I was wondering what the salaries are like for administrators overseas. Obviously it will vary from school to school but does anyone know salaries of specific schools or what principals and VP's make in comparison to teachers? What about additional benefits? I am not sure how to go about getting this info without joining Search for their data bank?

The salary range is huge. Could start from 24K to a few that are over 100K. Different regions pay differently and have very different cost of living (COL). Remote locations, dangerous cities, less desirable places may have a better package. Larger, well established schools may also, but with that comes more competition. The difficult thing is that many schools do not list specifics of their admin. salary package on the SEARCH or ISS data bank.

Benefits are far ranging: most will provide some sort of housing or a housing allowance, some level of health insurance, some amount of shipping, and annual flights. From there the benefits are far ranging. They may or may not include-utilitites (not long distance calls), use of a car, LTD, life insurance, some sort of severence or US social security or the school may pay the local taxes, settling in allowance, PD funds, tuition for your kids (often limited to 2 kids), flights for your spouse/kids. A few schools even cover storage costs, flight for your college kid, cell phone.

You need to pay attention to COL and savings potential. What may seem a huge salary in Zurich may be eaten up with a very high COL. Conversly, some of the developing countries have a low COL where you can live a pampered lifestyle while still saving.

If the school has non profit status in USA, then you can visit 990 tax filings which list 5 highest paid staff members with their salaries.
visit

http://atgdata.fdncenter.org/990search/ ... nformation

I can't find the above website....

Are you sure you posted the correct one ?

If possible, please post it again...as I would like to check the information out !

Never mind..just found this !!!

Your query: ( Organization Name: international schools , State: None Chosen , Zip: None Chosen , EIN: None Chosen )


15 documents matched. 15 documents displayed.
Organization Name State Year Total Assets Form Pages EIN
Association of International Schools in Africa FL 2004 $1,204,561 990 15 30-0002577
Association of International Schools in Africa FL 2003 $1,195,537 990 13 30-0002577
Association of International Schools in Africa FL 2002 $1,113,707 990 14 30-0002577
Council of International Schools Inc. ZZ 2004 $2,224,197 990 24 81-0579256
European Council of International Schools Inc. ZZ 2004 $2,749,237 990 12 98-0020281
European Council of International Schools Inc. ZZ 2003 $3,212,548 990 12 98-0020281
International Schools Consortium Inc. GA 2004 $0 990 13 75-3130029
International Schools Foundation Inc. NJ 2004 $25,556 990 13 22-3673291
International Schools Foundation Inc. NJ 2003 $25,780 990 13 22-3673291
International Schools Services Inc. NJ 2004 $18,592,694 990 55 13-1926673
International Schools Services Inc. NJ 2003 $17,858,686 990 34 13-1926673
International Schools Services Inc. NJ 2002 $18,909,411 990 31 13-1926673
National Center for International Schools CA 2004 $22,173,234 990 19 94-3160528
National Center for International Schools CA 2003 $22,626,479 990 17 94-3160528
National Center for International Schools CA 2002 $23,683,111 990 17 3160528

I still do not see where you find the information about the top school heads ?

Help plesae.

You cannot find the top pay of all heads, but you can look up a specific school(that has US Non profit status) and then open a pdf that lists the pay of the Head and 5 highest paid faculty.

Can you give us ONE example please ?

I still can't find the information.
Thanks.

Does anyone know if there are special job fairs for administrators or if they get hired at a teacher fair?

All three of these organizations post the admin positions they have been contacted about:

* Search Associates
* Council of International Schools
* International School Services

Simply go to each of their web sites and you can see which schools are searching for administrators. Some ask that you apply through the organization and others you contact the school directly.

Many international schools narrow a short list of candidates and then invite the final candidates into the school for a visit.