Generally, the more responsibilities you take on in an organization and the higher your leadership status, the more money you earn.

Not so in the Hawaii Department of Education.

School principals make more than the complex area superintendents, who make more than state-level leaders like Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi and her assistant superintendents. (Report here.)

Civil Beat has reported this before in its story about DOE salaries, but now the Hawaii State Board of Education wants to address it. That could be complicated given continuous budget cuts, but we’ll see what the board comes up with.