This publication describes various approaches used by school districts to determine salary schedules for principals and vice-principals and presents sample salary schedules and criteria illustrating eight different approaches. The information presented here was derived from data gathered during the 1974-75 National Survey of Salaries and Wages in Public Schools conducted by Educational Research Service. The eight approaches described are generally variations on five methods of setting principals' salary schedules: a separate salary schedule, unrelated to any other salary in the district; a salary schedule based on a percentage of the district superintendent's salary; a salary schedule based on a percentage of the salary of senior high school principals in the district; a salary schedule based on a percentage of some other reference figure (such as the average of superintendents' salaries in neighboring districts); and salaries set independently for each principal, either through individual negotiations or based on a subjective decision by the superintendent or school board. (JG)