$2.3M In School Admin. Salaries In Mendham, Chester In 2019

Superintendent and principal salaries continue to rise, and last year the Mendham and the Chester taxpayers spent $2,231,040 on the superintendent and principals in their school district.

The Department of Education recently released its annual list of superintendents and principals and their salaries before the start of the 2019-20 school year. Some of the principals and superintendents listed may no longer be with their schools; this list was developed in 2019.

The list below contains administrators, with their school, their years of service (which is surely a factor in their pay) and, finally, their salaries in 2019:

Mendham

• Salvatore Constantino, Mendham Township Superintendent, 21, $158,865
• David Heller, Hilltop School, 20, $132,827
• Patrick Ciccone, Mendham Township Middle School, 21, $196,761
• Julianne Kotcho, Mendham Township Elementary School, 25, $139,778

Chester

• Christina VanWoert, Chester Superintendent, 26, $181,747
• Melissa Fair, Dickerson Elementary School, $152,757
• Andrew White, Black River Middle School, 1, $138,713
• Michele Stanton, Bragg Elementary School, 6, $136,042

West Morris Regional

• Michael Ben-David, West Morris Regional Superintendent, 18, $174,689
• Michael Matyas, West Morris Central High School, 24, $184,445
• Stephen Ryan, West Morris Mendham High School, 22, $182,945
• Janet Slover, West Morris Mendham High School, 38, $168,245
• Toni Liskiewicz, West Morris Central High School, 21, $165,745
• Anna Meagher, West Morris Mendham High School, 24, $150,450
• Timothy Rymer, West Morris Central High School, 21, $147,850

The Department of Education has said it double-checks the data before delivering it to the media.

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