As another comparison point to the MPS search for a superintendent, consider the search that led to Biddy Martin being chosen in 2008 as University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor.
That cost just under $140,000, not including the time faculty and staff spent on the search, said David Musolf, UW-Madison’s secretary of the faculty. The state’s public flagship university spent about $72,000 on a search firm, about $17,000 on advertising, roughly $38,000 for hotel expenses and the remainder on incidental expenses such as postage, printing, phone charges and travel expenses, Musolf said.