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School board OKs salary hike for superintendent
MCCOOK, Neb. — By a unanimous vote, the McCook Board of Education voted to increase Superintendent Grant Norgaard’s salary to $160,00.
It’s a 1.458 percent increase from last year’s salary at $157,000. The three-year contract will maintain the same health and dental benefits under the school district’s group plan at $18,107.38. Norgaard has been with the McCook School District for nine years.
Board president Tom Bredvick said an ad hoc committee of himself and board members Teresa Thomas and Loretta Hauxwell had met and reviewed the benefits and compensation of Norgaard’s contract and that he also met and discussed the contract with Norgaard.
Bredvick made the recommendation to increase the salary to $160,000, “based on our financial position, the economic environment, the cost of living and negotiations with Mr. Norgaard.”
Bredvick also noted that when comparing Norgaard’s salary/benefits last year with other superintendent salaries/benefits in Class B schools and schools who belong in the same athletic conference as McCook, Norgaards’ ranked 17th in total compensation and 16th in salary; this year it will rank 15th in both. This may change as other superintendent salaries are negotiated, he said.
The top one-third of superintendent salaries in schools Bredvick cited has an average compensation of $256,605 with an average salary increase of 5.02 percent, while the bottom one-third averaged $178,473 with an average salary increase of 2.09 percent.
Bredvick showed how Norgaard’s salary/benefits last year ranked in the middle of the 27 schools, with the total average salary of those schools at $207,515 with the average salary increase at 2.98 percent.
Of the superintendent salaries compared, Grand Island had the highest salary of $249,231 and Valentine the lowest at $130,500.