SAN FRANCISCO – No wonder there’s a teacher shortage in the San Francisco Unified School District.

In a city where the cost of living is through the roof, most of the big money is paid to district administrators and other big shots, while most of the teachers struggle along on salaries well below the six-figure mark.

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One hint of the problem came earlier this year, when the San Francisco Board of Education gave Superintendent Richard Carranza a whopping $65,000 raise, a 27 percent increase which will raise his straight salary to $355,000 in three years.

The raise itself was more than the average salary of San Francisco teachers, according to SFGate.com.

That news prompted an ugly reaction from teachers and union officials.

“There is a respect to the superintendent by giving him a raise. We want to see that kind of respect given to our members as well,” teachers union spokeswoman Susan Soloman told KPIX.

The teachers would be really upset if they dug a little deeper and checked out the list of top salaries in the district in 2013-14.

A total of 111 employees made at least $100,000 in straight salary. There were 110 administrators of various types on that list, and only one teacher.

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Only five teachers were on the list of the top 200 salaries in the district. They ranked 104, 121, 161, 170, and 193, respectively, and all five were special ROTC student military training instructors.

You have to go all the way to No. 260 on the list to find a regular classroom teacher – Julie Lynn Norris-Salaam – who made a straight salary of $85,231.

It gets worse. The district had 763 employees make at least $100,000 in salary plus benefits in 2013-14 and only 184 of them were teachers.

To say that the San Fran school payroll is top-heavy is more than an understatement.

The top 10 salaries in 2013-14 went to Carranza (277,678), Deputy Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero ($204,645), General Counsel Donald Davis ($181,830), Deputy Superintendent Myonghoon Leigh ($181,597), Assistant Superintendent Elizabeth Blanco ($156,101), Assistant Superintendent Davida Desmond ($152,655), Early Education Department Chief Carla Bryant ($152,256), Associate Superintendent Kevin Truitt ($151,547), Associate Superintendent Luis Valentino ($147,066), and Chief of Administrative Services Monica Vasquez ($146,625).

Notice all of those “superintendent” titles? It gets even more crowded at the top. Beyond those previously mentioned, six more assistant superintendents were also on the list, with the lowest paid coming in at $121,666.

That means Carranza had 12 extremely well-paid assistants in 2013-14, who as a group were paid an obscene total of $1.7 million.

Then, of course, there was Cheryl Desanti, who served as “confidential secretary to the superintendent” and was paid $74,931 in straight salary, more than a lot of teachers.

Contrast all of those folks with Allison Leshefsky, a San Francisco physical education teacher, who told KPIX last year that she receives $62,000 annually, is currently being evicted from her home and won’t be able to remain in the city if she is.

Something’s definitely out of balance in San Francisco. If district administrators really want to attract more teachers, they are going to have to learn to share a bit more.