You asked for it. You got it. Here are the salaries for WCPS’ key Central Office players and the School Board.

Wayne County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Michael Dunsmore — and his assistant superintendent for accountability/information technology Dr. David Lewis — talked a lot about cost-cutting at the board’s latest meeting.

On that list were increasing class sizes to condense and cut teaching positions; moving media specialists to open instructional assistant positions to cut costs; eliminating extra pay for teachers and coaches; and culling some enhancement classes.

All of those moves, as well as petitioning the county and state for more money, could get the school district closer to balancing its 2020-21 budget.

But a topic that did not come up was how Central Office expenses could be cut to alleviate the county schools’ budget woes.

Dunsmore did note that the Central Office budget is projected to be higher this coming year.

But he defended the expense by noting that there is less staff at Central Office than there was five years ago.

“The Central Office budget is primarily all salaries,” he said. “When you get the increase in benefits, the health care benefits and retirement … we have less people now than we had (in 2016).”

Dunsmore talked very briefly about Central Office expenses, making note that the state sets the initial salaries. Local funds are used to bump those salaries higher.

Here are the state’s pay scales for these positions from 2019-20:

But Dunsmore said that to attract quality administrators, local supplements are necessary.

“The state sets a level. This is what we think that position should pay. I will tell you that in the open market, there isn’t one that meets that level, so the local has to put into that,” he said.

In the budget packet presented to the board, the district included a listing of the salaries in the Central Office category of the budget.

Our readers have asked us to make those salaries public.

Here they are: