COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – About a year ago, the Colorado Springs Gazette published a story with the headline “Colorado Springs-area school districts boosting superintendent pay.”

“The recession has come and gone and so have pay freezes for teachers,” the news report said. “For the most part, superintendents’ salaries also are on the rise.”

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That was apparently a bit of an understatement on the newspaper’s part.

The story said Nicholas Gledich, the superintendent of the Colorado Springs D-11 school district, “receives a compensation package of about $263,500.”

That news report was dated March 27, 2016, so it’s safe to assume that the article was referring to the superintendent’s compensation in the 2015-16 fiscal year.

Almost a year later, Gledich’s compensation package is a lot bigger than that, with salary and benefits figured in.

According to information provided by the school district, Gledich is currently receiving a base salary of $232,651, plus a $6,000 expense allowance, a “basic benefit allowance” of $15,000, and vacation/sick leave pay of $15,139.

The Colorado Springs school district is also paying $50,398 on Gledich’s behalf this year into the Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association.

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That will bring his total compensation package for 2016-17 to $319,188 – which is $55,688 more than it reportedly was a year earlier.

That’s not a matter of “boosting” superintendent pay, as the headline said. It’s more like shooting it through the roof.