A budget of £239,000 has been set aside to pay the chairmen of the boards and five mostly part-time civil servants who will support them.
Eight boards were created last month, which between them cover all States schools and The Guernsey Institute.
They are operating without any legal powers while an investigation committee discusses whether they should be handed any in the future.
Education, Sport & Culture recently completed the appointment of the eight chairmen. Each one is entitled to pick up between £4,560 and £7,980 a year.
‘They are offered an annual stipend which varies based on the scope of the schools or settings they oversee. The total potential cost of all stipends is £49,980, but this figure will reduce if any chairman opts not to claim the stipend,’ said Sophie Roughsedge, head of education operations at the Education Office.
In addition, three clerks and two other members of staff at the Education Office have been appointed to provide administrative support and advice to the boards, at a total cost of £189,000 a year.
‘Three clerks support up to approximately 170 governors across the 20 governance boards in Guernsey and Alderney, ensuring the boards are well serviced and effectively supported,’ said Mrs Roughsedge.
‘Clerks work on a part-time, term-time basis and provide full administrative and governance support to the boards, including agenda preparation, comprehensive meeting packs, minutes, action tracking, and the organisation of both formal and informal meetings.
‘These positions have now all been filled.’
One of the other Education Office roles is full-time and one is part-time. Despite the school boards having no powers, the Education Committee has said that they will be able to hold head teachers to account on safeguarding, standards, resources and staff performance and represent the voices of students, staff and the wider community.
The law creating the boards, one of the first agreed by deputies following their election in the summer, also scrapped parochial school management committees, which were made up of unpaid volunteers and were the only partially independent bodies involved in the operation of States schools.
ESC has pledged to devolve some responsibilities to the new school boards in due course, and the investigation committee looking into the issue, which is chaired by Deputy Tina Bury, met for the first time towards the end of November.