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CMS superintendent earns $300k a year. Here are other highest paid district employees

Search the list below of the highest-paid employees at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.
Search the list below of the highest-paid employees at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. mrodriguez@charlotteobserver.com

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Crystal Hill leads the way in top salaries at the district.

Hill makes $300,000 annually — $19,000 more than the next-highest paid CMS employee, Andre Mayes.

Mayes, the district’s general counsel, makes $281,000 annually. Multiple district administrators make more than $200,000, including Deputy Superintendent Melissa Balknight, Chief Academic Officer Nancy Brightwell and Chief Operations Officer, Brian Schultz.

Associate superintendents round out the top 20.

Search the salaries of all CMS employees here.

This story was originally published July 19, 2024 at 5:30 AM.

Gavin Off
The Charlotte Observer
Gavin Off was previously the Charlotte Observer’s data reporter, since 2011. He also worked as a data reporter at the Tulsa World and at Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C. His journalism, including his data analysis and reporting for the investigative series Big Poultry, won multiple national journalism awards.
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