Why are administrators paid more than teachers?

In other fields, it's easy to understand why managers are paid more, at least in theory. Usually they have many years of experience performing the jobs which their employees/underlings are doing, and/or they have specialized skill sets that others don't have. In either case, being paid more than those under them does make some intuitive sense. Of course it won't always be the case, as there will always be some amount of nepotism/cronyism, but it's the guiding principle.

But this does not seem to be the case in education.

1. 99% of the administrators I've met have either never even been a teacher, or only taught for 2-3 years, and then switched to admin. There is no way that these administrators know more about pedagogy or curriculum development than the teachers they supervise.
2. They don't have special skill sets. They just do budget work, make schedules, and occasionally deal with student behavior issues (which in my experience they just pass the buck on at every opportunity).

The amount of planning, stress, and complexity that teachers go through is infinitely more difficult. Anybody have some insight into why administrators are paid so much more?

Submitted February 12, 2020 at 10:22AM by EgoDefenseMechanism https://ift.tt/38manWJ