Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1915 — Superintendent of Schools Gets $18,500 Annual Salary. [ARTICLE]

Superintendent of Schools Gets $18,500 Annual Salary.

The Gary school board has engaged William Wirt as superintendent of schools there for another two years at a salary of $6,000 a year. Mr. Wirt is permitted by the board to serve one day each month as advisory superintendent of the Troy, New York, schools at an annual salary of $2,600, and one week each month for the New York city schools at SIO,OOO a year. This makes Wirt’s school *• salaries $18,500 per year, being tire second highest paid pubMc official in the U. S. In the minds of some people the above cities can get a superintendent at a salary of $l5O per month, but “some people’s” opinions are never considered in matters of this kind.