Growing numbers of academy leaders, many of them responsible for only a handful of schools, now earn more than £200,000 a year. In one case a headteacher at a single academy trust is now paid £220,000, while an associate head at the same trust is on £145,000. A Schools Week investigation also revealed two chief executives running fewer than five schools broke the £200,000 barrier. Schools Week revealed yesterday that the country’s highest-paid academy chief executive, Sir Dan Moynihan of Harris Federation, had another pay hike – boosting his pay to £420,000. But the new findings, based on academy trust accounts from 2015-16, expose stark variations between academy boss pay. A previous analysis into the pay of the country’s largest 13 academy trusts last year found just three bosses were paid above £200,000 (two of them oversee 50 schools each). Six academy leaders responsible for more than 30 schools earned less than £200,000. We don’t want to see a huge salary gap Malcolm Trobe, interim general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said there was no “rough rule of thumb” on academy chief executive and head pay, and school numbers. He said remuneration was driven by the…http://schoolsweek.co.uk/meet-the-200k-per-year-academy-chiefs-who-look-after-just-a-handful-of-schools/