Chairman of the Board of Regents makes the most money of any public official in Montana!

Even though the following is not about Missoula's schools, specifically, I thought I'd include it on my blog.

Clay Christian is the highest paid public employee in Montana

The above is a screenshot of the MSN posting for Montana taken on September 21, 2015.

This morning I was logged on to MSN and I clicked on a link to an article reporting on the highest paid public official for all 50 states. For most states it was a college football or basketball coach. I knew that it most likely was not a coach for Montana's highest paid public official.

 The article had a picture display of each state's highest paid public official. As I was following to some degree the news regarding the salary of Clay Christian when he was appointed Commissioner of Higher Education I thought that this might be the guy with Montana's largest public employee salary. And it was!

His salary is $351,000. per year.

While the discussion of Christian's compensation was in the news many people spoke up on the blogs and weren't happy about this high salary. And now we see that it is the highest in the state! (Perhaps this was reported at the time, however, I did not read that it was the highest at the time.)