Each correct answer was worth $5,000, increasing his first-year salary from $70,000 to $95,000.

As a fee, it gets the standard one-third of the executive's first-year salary and bonus.

Delgado's first-year salary was $4 million, leaving $48 million for the next three years.

The deal included $18 million in first-year salary and bonus.

Also, in 2002, the mayor raised the first-year salary to $39,000 from $31,000, almost instantly wiping out the annual new teacher shortage.

Once the teacher is placed in a classroom, at the regular first-year salary, the school must provide an experienced mentor.

His first-year salary under the new contract is $2.25 million.

That includes a signing bonus of $1.6 million and a first-year salary of $400,000.

He then answered five trivia questions, each correct answer worth $5,000, to bump his first-year salary to $95,000.

The deal included a first-year salary of close to $500,000 with more than half of it guaranteed.