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QUEENSLAND’S top private school principals are being paid more than the state’s Premier, newly released annual reports have revealed.

The financial reports of eight Queensland private schools have been tabled in State Parliament, revealing the annual incomes of school leaders – half of which were more than $500,000 – with the schools pulling in tens of millions of dollars in school fees.

Toowoomba Grammar School Headmaster Peter Hauser had a total remuneration package of $537,000 in 2018 including a base salary of $462,000, surpassing Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s last reported salary of $399,955 and just slightly behind Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s salary of approximately $538,000.