Over 150K Salaries For Princeton Schools Superintendent, Principals

PRINCETON, NJ — Superintendent and principal salaries have increased state-wide, and according to data from the New Jersey Department of Education, Princeton residents paid over $1.8 million in salaries to the superintendent, principals and administrators in their school district last year.

More than 2,500 educational administrators in the state earned $150,000 or more during the previous school year, according to the recently-released data. That kind of pay is becoming more common for New Jersey school administrators.

Former Gov. Chris Christie implemented a $175,000 cap for superintendents in 2011. The Christie administration raised their maximum base pay to $191,584 in 2017. But Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law in 2019 that eliminates the cap for superintendent salaries but set guidelines for school-executive contracts to limit or standardize bonuses and other perks.

The list below contains the administrators, along with their school, years of service, and their salaries from this past school year:

• CAROL KELLEY, District Office, Princeton Public School District, 0, $240,000
• ROBERT GINSBERG, District Office, Princeton Public School District, 44, $218,492
• JASON BURR, Princeton Middle School, Princeton Public School District, 25, $188,395
• MICHAEL VOLPE, District Office, Princeton Public School District, 25, $183,842
• MATTHEW BOULDIN, District Office, Princeton Public School District, 2, $181,741
• MARGARET CRISAFULLI, District Office, Princeton Public School District, 39, $179,135
• DINEEN GRUCHACZ, Community Park School, Princeton Public School District, 22, $178,316
• FRANK CHMIEL, Princeton High School, Princeton Public School District, 0, $169,000
• ANGELA SISO STENTZ, Johnson Park School, Princeton Public School District, 21, $166,213
• LUIS RAMIREZ, Littlebrook School, Princeton Public School District, 25, $154,735
• DANA KARAS, Princeton High School, Princeton Public School District, 3, $151,000

(With reporting from Josh Bakan, Patch Staff)

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