Comparing one person’s salary to another person’s salary can be a dangerous game.

Salaries are among the most personal matters to some people, and it’s human nature to start comparing the worth of the guy next door to your own worth.

Most of the time, what one makes is none of anyone else’s business. The matter is between the employee and the employer.

But the issue turns 180-degrees when the employer is local government and the funds being spent are taxpayer-based.

Questions surrounding salary levels at the Natchez-Adams School District are nothing new. They seem to swirl each time someone new is hired — or terminated. But a list of the salaries recently obtained by an elected official and circulated around the community prompted a deeper look.

Comparing the salary of a highly educated school worker who is in a less skilled position is not fair.

But logically, something does seem a little skewed when considering some of the salaries at the NASD and the number of top administrators earning high salaries.

As one school board member suggested, it seems odd to think that the assistant superintendent position in the school district may earn more than a state Supreme Court justice.

While it may seem harsh for elected officials and school board members to publicly question the salaries, that’s vitally needed. Routine reexamination of policies, practices and procedures is simply a sign of good government at work.

At the end of the day, if school board members are satisfied that salaries are fair to taxpayers, so be it. If not, then they need to make some changes.

In either case, taxpayers need to be informed about what’s going on with their tax dollars in their public school system.