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My school usually has 2 drum majors: 1 for a few movements while the other marches and then they switch off. We have section leaders for all the sections. I'm thinking of trying out for drum major next year but we're not going to competitions anymore so our shows are kind of lame now, so I don't know if I will or not. I'm probably going to have to be section leader next year anyhow because the one we have now is moving. My band director privately told me the past 2 years that I should inteview because I was more qualified and a better player than the leader we have now. The thing is though, yes I'm a good player but I am very impatient and a terrible teacher. If we get a bunch of freshmen who don't know how to play anything I will get frustrated and start yelling at them and nothing will get done. Thats why I never bothered but I guess I'm going to have to get over that now...

My school just recently (3 years ago) underwent a change in directors. It was so confusing. I was a freshman, so I didn't exactly understand the heirarchy other than seniors had rule over everything.

With Mr. L, our new BD, our system is a little like this:

We have our woodwinds, our brass, our guard, our percussion, our logistics and our admin team. Admin Team usually does the copying and such, with copy requests and getting impossible tasks done in incredible amounts of time. They're angels.
The logistic team is in charge of loading our away trailer, setting up chairs everyday before class (even though I usually get stuck doing that, as I have no 3rd period and find myself in the BandRoom), and organizing things.

We have about 160 people in our band altogether. (winds/percussion/guard)

Hierarchy:

Colonels- The BD Bitches. They do whatever needs to be done whenever it needs to be done. No questions asked. They're in on all the extras of the band and usually have mics to communicate with each other. We have 4-5 of these, and we try to cover the different sections with them. (Woodwind, Brass, Guard, Drum Major, Percussion)

Captains - Just one step under Colonels, we have anywhere from 4 to six of these and they fall under the same ideas of the colonels.

Lieutenants - There are a lot. These include members of the admin and logistic team, section leaders and the secondary drum Major, as this is usually an underclassman. So there are many of these. They're at the bottom of the barrel and don't often have any say in what goes on. It's sad really, but they are the working class, as these are the people who the work gets dumped on most of the time.

The Drum Major has no power over us other than the power to wave his/her arms to set tempo. That's it. (though she thinks she can have so much more)
We shoot her down whenever she gets this way though.

We have about 130 (ish?) members of our band including color guard and percussion.

Our band is ******** tiny.
All the kids want to get an easy A+ in choir.
We have 25 kids.
I'm brass leader with my stand partner xD
We rock.