Utah · 2025 pay
How much do Freedom Academy employees make?
$16,548typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025
$7,928 – $58,445what most people earned
Includes everyone paid during 2025, including part-year and seasonal workers. The source doesn't show who worked the full year.
Transparent Utah publishes pay by position without employee names, so there is no name search here.
Common jobs: Sped ParaprofessionalCustodialLunchroom
✓ Official data from Transparent UtahMatches the agency's latest releaseutah.gov ↗
How is pay spread across workers?
A year of pay for a lower-paid, typical and higher-paid worker (counting everyone paid), and the top earner, split into regular pay, overtime and extra pay.
$7,835
$16,710
$58,298
$188,479
Lower-paid workerearns more than 1 in 4 coworkers
Typical workerright in the middle
Higher-paid workerearns more than 3 in 4 coworkers
Highest paidone person
Regular payOvertimeExtra pay
Is pay going up?
Yes. Typical pay went from $13,321 in 2016 to $16,548 in 2025 (+24%).
What changed since 2024
- +6.0%Typical pay went up from $15,606 to $16,548.
- −20323 people were paid in 2025, compared with 343 in 2024.
- +24%Since 2016, typical pay has gone from $13,321 to $16,548, while the number of people paid went up from 167 to 323.
The agency updates it yearly, after each entity's fiscal year closes.
Pay slip · 2025
A typical worker's year
Freedom Academy
official data
2016–2025
| Regular pay | $16,710 |
|---|---|
| Overtime | $0 |
| Extra pay | $0 |
| Total for the year | $16,710 |
Average of the 16 workers in the middle of the pay range. Does not include benefits.
Matches the agency's latest release
Worth knowing about pay at Freedom Academy
What stands out in the payroll data, checked against the rest of our data before it is shown.
- +182%
Since 2016, total pay at Freedom Academy went up 182% while the number of people paid went up 93%.
Counts everyone paid during each year. Not adjusted for inflation.
- +3.8%
People paid by Freedom Academy in both 2024 and 2025 saw their pay change by a typical +3.8%. Typical pay across everyone paid changed +6.0%, as people joined and left.
Usual among the 22 other school districts in Utah in our data: +6.1%.
Compares the same people in both years, so new hires and leavers do not move it. Overtime and hours worked count too.
Pay by job
Jobs held by 5 or more people in 2025.
| Job | People | Typical pay | Most earn | Since 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sped Paraprofessional | 33 | $15,063 | $7k – $16k | ▲ 25.5% |
| Custodial | 26 | $7,859 | $5k – $13k | ▲ 28.4% |
| Lunchroom | 25 | $10,433 | $5k – $16k | ▼ 4.3% |
| Kindergarten Para | 14 | $15,235 | $14k – $17k | ▲ 1.9% |
| 2nd Grade | 11 | $54,582 | $46k – $57k | ▲ 5.8% |
| Kindergarten | 10 | $58,638 | $48k – $65k | ▲ 2.2% |
| Bus Driver | 10 | $17,256 | $3k – $21k | ▲ 25.2% |
| Sped Teacher | 9 | $69,699 | $57k – $75k | ▲ 5.2% |
| 4th Grade | 8 | $63,293 | $58k – $68k | ▲ 9.1% |
| 1st Grade | 8 | $55,334 | $46k – $59k | ▲ 3.2% |
| 3rd Grade | 8 | $49,529 | $9k – $58k | ▲ 1.1% |
| Recess | 8 | $4,953 | $4k – $6k | ▲ 44.1% |
| Secretarial | 7 | $46,850 | $38k – $51k | ▲ 31.1% |
| Intervention Para | 7 | $13,926 | $14k – $16k | ▲ 63.9% |
| 6th Grade | 6 | $64,753 | $52k – $81k | ▼ 6.1% |
| Coach | 6 | $1,876 | $1k – $2k | new |
| Math | 5 | $69,066 | $61k – $72k | ▲ 4.9% |
| Pe Teacher | 5 | $26,633 | $9k – $48k | new |
| Librarian | 5 | $20,001 | $19k – $23k | ▼ 17.3% |
| Reading Para | 5 | $13,921 | $12k – $17k | new |
No jobs match.
How many people earn what
- Under $10k94
- $10k – $30k105
- $30k – $50k21
- $50k – $70k59
- $70k – $90k28
- $90k – $110k11
- $110k – $150k3
- $150k or more2
Includes part-time and seasonal workers, which is why many earn under $10k.
Highest paid at Freedom Academy in 2025
- 1Ervin B IvieCoo$188,479▼ $1,851 vs 2024
- 2Grayson WolfCeo$154,370▲ $42,926 vs 2024
- 3Matthew O FullmerPrincipal$118,563▲ $11,711 vs 2024
- 4Jed R BichselIT Director$116,150▲ $1,782 vs 2024
- 5Alvin EcheverriaScience$110,297▲ $10,220 vs 2024
- 6Michael CutlerFacilities Director$109,742▲ $4,154 vs 2024
- 7April H. DeanNutrition Director$108,806▼ $9,738 vs 2024
- 8Karla Kay SnowAssistant Principal$103,317▲ $513 vs 2024
- 9Trevor JonesMath$99,872▲ $11,405 vs 2024
- 10Carrie BanfieldPrincipal$99,568▲ $3,764 vs 2024
Common questions
How much does a Freedom Academy employee make?
The typical employee was paid $16,548 in 2025: half of the 323 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $7,928 and $58,445.
Why do so many people earn very little?
The list includes everyone who got a paycheck during the year: part-time, seasonal and short-term workers, and people who joined or left partway through. 94 people (29.1%) were paid under $10,000.
Does this include benefits like health insurance or pension?
No. It is the pay people received: regular salary or wages (100.0% of all pay), overtime (0.0%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (0.0%).
Where does this data come from, and when is it updated?
From Utah Transparency (Office of the State Auditor / Division of Finance) (utah.gov). Our figures match the agency's latest release; the agency updates it yearly, after each entity's fiscal year closes.
"Typical pay" is the median: half earn more, half earn less. "Most earn" is the middle half of workers. Figures are calculated by PublicPayData from the official dataset; 0 records with $0 or negative pay are left out. How we calculate this · Corrections & removals