Superintendent Salaries & Gender

Although males were overrepresented in the superintendency (73 percent) compared to females (27 percent), the median salary of female superintendents was slightly higher than that of males for the seventh time during the last 12 years, according to the latest AASA national survey.

Male superintendents across all district enrollments earned 99.5 percent of what females earned in 2023-24.

The results stand in contrast to prepandemic national wage data. Nationally, females earn about 82 percent of what men earn across all job categories and levels of education, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. The wage gap nationally persists even when comparing men and women with equal educational attainment.