Gavra- unless you are speaking from personal experience, I believe your numbers are way off. If you need someone to put you in contact with a good accountant and financial planner I am sure that your friends in the YW coffee room can do that. I think that a person making 400k a year most likely has wrong is a less than glatt hashkafa that I can spend without limits.
DerShteygingYid- I don’t know where you live but I would appreciate you sharing it with us so that all Rabbeim can move to your gan eden hatachton. I have never heard of a place where Rabbeim get double what public school teachers make-and I yes I have been in the Jewish day school business for a while.
As general perspective, Dr. Marvin Schick who is probably the biggest maven on day schools in America (may he live and be well), also sees the current model of sustaining yeshivos as unsustainable. It seems that the only way to keep things going is for those in our communities who make big money and waste it on lavish things (20 piece orchestras at weddings, 70k on pesach vacations etc) need to step up to the plate. I know its easy for us little guys to tell others how to spend their money, but we can all try to show some revulsion when we see people spend a ton of $ on a simcha. While you are inhaling that extra helping at the shmorg try to look at the baal simcha as a nebach who was given money without sufficient brains to match.