Utah · 2025 pay
How much do Venture Academy employees make?
$15,908typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025
$4,928 – $54,659what most people earned
Includes everyone paid during 2025, including part-year and seasonal workers. The source doesn't show who worked the full year.
✓ 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.
$4,864
$15,676
$54,259
$184,764
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 $8,648 in 2016 to $15,908 in 2025 (+84%).
What changed since 2024
- +10.3%Typical pay went up from $14,417 to $15,908.
- +1172 people were paid in 2025, compared with 171 in 2024.
- +84%Since 2016, typical pay has gone from $8,648 to $15,908, while the number of people paid went up from 143 to 172.
The agency updates it yearly, after each entity's fiscal year closes.
Pay slip · 2025
A typical worker's year
Venture Academy
official data
2016–2025
| Regular pay | $15,615 |
|---|---|
| Overtime | $0 |
| Extra pay | $60 |
| Total for the year | $15,676 |
Average of the 9 workers in the middle of the pay range. Does not include benefits.
Matches the agency's latest release
Pay by job
Jobs held by 5 or more people in 2025.
| Job | People | Typical pay | Most earn | Since 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teacher | 62 | $55,774 | $31k – $69k | ▲ 9.0% |
| Aide | 37 | $14,013 | $10k – $17k | ▼ 5.3% |
| Kitchen | 21 | $8,654 | $0k – $14k | ▼ 11.5% |
| Substitute Teacher | 17 | $788 | $0k – $1k | ▼ 37.8% |
| Custodian | 16 | $3,763 | $2k – $7k | ▲ 85.0% |
| Secretary | 9 | $27,251 | $15k – $43k | ▲ 65.3% |
| Principal | 5 | $88,583 | $87k – $100k | ▲ 8.3% |
How many people earn what
- Under $10k65
- $10k – $30k46
- $30k – $50k11
- $50k – $70k31
- $70k – $90k16
- $90k – $110k1
- $110k – $150k1
- $150k or more1
Includes part-time and seasonal workers, which is why many earn under $10k.
Highest paid at Venture Academy in 2025
- 1Mark ChildDirector$184,764▲ $15,081 vs 2024
- 2Nissa GreenPrincipal$118,352▲ $12,287 vs 2024
- 3Christina EarlPrincipal$100,473▲ $7,606 vs 2024
- 4Jessica GoodPrincipal$88,583▲ $6,822 vs 2024
- 5Drew BarclayPrincipal$86,708new in 2025
- 6Ashley CasonTeacher$81,505▲ $9,606 vs 2024
- 7Mariah HowickTeacher$80,135▲ $6,304 vs 2024
- 8Nicole MorrisTeacher$78,265▲ $12,277 vs 2024
- 9Joseph MccormackTeacher$77,359▲ $4,561 vs 2024
- 10Heidi EsplinTeacher$76,674▲ $8,813 vs 2024
Common questions
How much does a Venture Academy employee make?
The typical employee was paid $15,908 in 2025: half of the 172 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $4,928 and $54,659.
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. 65 people (37.8%) 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 (99.0% of all pay), overtime (0.0%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (1.0%).
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