How much of the Districts budget goes toward salaries and benefits?
In the proposed FY2011 Preliminary Budget, 88 percent of the District’s operating budget will pay for salaries and benefits for 12,000 employees who serve our 85,000 students. The remainder of the budget is spent on everything else: books, technology, building maintenance, supplies, bus fuel, utilities, liability insurance, paper, etc. Even though AISD is a very large organization, only 2.4 percent of our employees make up Central Administration, supporting programmatic and administrative functions. A functional breakout of the proposed budget can be found on page 36 of the FY2011 Preliminary Budget book.
