Columbus City Schools incoming superintendent, Talisa Dixon, is set to take home nearly a quarter-million dollars per year in base salary, more than Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther, and most other public employees in the state.

“It is what it is,” Columbus school board president Gary Baker told The Columbus Dispatch. “This is a 24-7, 365-day position, and I don’t think a lot of folks understand what it means to be superintendent. It’s your life. It’s a lifestyle.”

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Outside of a few public servants in medical fields and top Ohio State University officials, Dixon’s salary tops the list of highest paid public employees in the state, according to the news site.

Dixon will make roughly the same as her predecessor, Dan Good, who retired from the state’s largest school district in December 2017. The board paid Good a base salary of $195,000 per year, plus $48,000 yearly in tax-deferred pay for retirement, which totaled $243,000 per year. Dixon will receive $242,000 in base pay, with the option to defer what she wants up to IRS limits, the Dispatch reports.

For perspective, the $242,000 base pay is $93,100 more than Kasich and $54,300 more than Ginther.

The massive salary “would be in the upper, I would say, 1 percent” of Ohio superintendents, Tom Ash, government relations director at the Buckeye Association of School Administrators, told the Dispatch.

Baker justified Dixon’s exorbitant starting salary by comparing it to what the board paid Good upon his retirement.

“What we decided to do was pay her the same overall compensation package as our previous superintendent,” he said, adding that the public has no reason to take issue with the eye-watering figure.

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“I hope not,” Baker said. “I don’t remember a lot of complaining about Dr. Good’s compensation, with it being essentially the same.”

WSYX disputes the notion that Dixon’s pay is on par with what the district paid Good, once a slew of special incentives, allowances and other perks in her contract are accounted for. All told, Dixon could bank about $50,000 more per year than Columbus’ last superintendent.

Dixon, who is currently paid $165,000 per year as superintendent of Cleveland Heights-University Heights school district, is expected to transfer to Columbus ahead of her official start date next school year. The Columbus board also agreed to pay Dixon $3,500 to consult in the interim, $9,000 per year for a car allowance, $2,000 for a cell phone allowance, and $10,000 in moving expenses, WSYX reports.

There’s also provisions in her contract that allows her to collect up to 90 days of unused vacation time and unlimited unused sick time to cash out when she leaves, a benefit that cost the district $142,600 when Good left.

Also, cash bonuses.

“On top of base salary, Dixon’s contract offers her four annual cash bonuses if the district meets student-performance benchmarks on the state report card,” the Dispatch reports. “That could add a total of just under $39,000 to her pay if she meets them all at the highest level.”

Based on Dixon’s track record, that seems unlikely.

The Cleveland Heights-University Heights school district had a “D” grade on the state report card when Dixon arrived four years ago, and still has a “D” on the state report card.

Of course, that’s one letter grade better than Columbus, which is rated an “F” school district and could face a state takeover if it doesn’t improve.