$150K-Plus Salaries For Parsippany Superintendent, Principals

PARSIPPANY, NJ — More than 2,500 educational administrators in the state made salaries of $150,000 or more during the past school year, according to data Patch pulled. Several of them work in the Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District.

Patch examined state data that includes pay for superintendents, principals and other employees in administrative positions. Out of roughly 8,400 people in New Jersey schools who fit the description, 2,556 of them made $150,000 or more.

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School-executive pay has been a controversial subject in both local school and district budgeting and state policy. Some of the state's highest-paid superintendents — especially those in more affluent districts — received generous pay increases in the past year, according to analysis from NJ Advance Media.

While administrative salaries are often a flashpoint for criticism in school policy, many districts struggled to maintain experienced superintendents when the position's pay was capped, according to a 2019 analysis from NJ Spotlight.

Here's a list of Parsippany's highest-paid school administrators, where their pay ranks among educational leaders in the state, their position (or school), their years of service and their salaries:

• 81. BARBARA SARGENT, superintendent, 4, $228,000
• 484. NANCY GIGANTE; director of planning, research and evaluation - academic and technology operations; 20; $186,722
• 537. DENIS MULROONY, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, 15, $185,000
• 584. ROBERT SUTTER, assistant superintendent of human resources, 5, $183,295
• 726. NATALIE BETZ, Northvail Elementary School, 25, $179,580
• 837. CHRISTOPHER WAACK, Intervale Elementary School, 21, $175,725
• 907. MARK GRAY, Central Middle School, 27, $174,554
• 1015. KEITH CORTRIGHT, executive director of pupil personnel services, 8, $172,525
• 1041. JEFFREY MARTENS, Troy Hills Elementary School, 27, $171,934
• 1250. MATTHEW THOMPSON, Parsippany Hills High School, 2, $168,176
• 1258. MICHAEL DISANTO, director of K-12 health/physical education/6-8 instructional technology, 13, $168,068
• 1313. MICHELE HOFFMAN, Littleton Elementary School, 23, $167,161
• 2349. JUAN CRUZ, Rockaway Meadow Elementary School, 21, $152,467

To view the entire statewide list, click here.