Districts pay top dollar for
school superintendents
By MARTIN C. BRICKETTO. thnt.com
Online, August 19, 2007
Leading a district with thousands
of students, a multimillion-dollar budget and strict federal progress standards
to meet comes with big responsibilities — but also a big salary.
More than 100 districts across the
state paid their administrators at least $175,000 in 2006 — the salary offered
to New Jersey's
governor. Last year, 23 districts paid their superintendents at least
$200,000 for managing school districts and budgets a fraction of the size of
New Jersey's.
Want to know
more? Salaries of school administrators, teachers and degreed support
staff in Central Jersey are now searchable at
www.thnt.com/DataUniverse.
The search will yield an
individual's degree, experience, classes taught and information about training
and certificates held. That information — obtained through the New Jersey
Department of Education — is new to the site.
Locally:
In Middlesex County, New Brunswick
Schools Superintendent Richard Kaplan earned the highest salary at $198,851.
In
Somerset County,
then-Franklin Township Schools Superintendent William
Westfield
earned the highest salary with $203,417.
In
Hunterdon
County, North
Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School Superintendent Charles Shaddow earned
the highest salary with $181,287.
In
Union
County, Elizabeth Schools
Superintendent Pablo Munoz earned the highest salary at $214,000.
Marion Bolden, superintendent of
schools in Newark, earned the most for any
New Jersey school official at $250,000. Newark
also is state's largest school district.
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