Assistant Principal

Across all employers in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN area, the median wage for Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary — about 11,050 people — is $128,780. William Howard Taft High Schoo pays a median base salary of $146,703 for this role, 14% above that figure — about the 79th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Median total compensation for this role at William Howard Taft High Schoo is $188,042, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.

Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.

Assistant Principal is held in 489 Chicago Public Schools departments. In William Howard Taft High Schoo, the median of $188,042 ranks #173 of 489.

This role is reported in 7 jurisdictions. In Chicago Public Schools, the median of $184,844 ranks #1 of 7. See Assistant Principal across all of Chicago Public Schools →