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Here's How Much Scotch Plains, Fanwood School Leaders Earn
7 of the Scotch Plains and Fanwood superintendents and principals earn more than $150,000. See where they rank.
SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD, NJ — Some of the highest paid superintendents and principals in New Jersey work in Scotch Plains and Fanwood.
The Department of Education recently released its annual list of New Jersey superintendents and principals and their salaries before the start of the 2018-19 school year. And the list of educators making $150,000 or more — a list that barely had any educators on it two decades ago — has grown in recent years.
It's also a small fraction of the more than 100,000 people who are teachers and administrators in public and charter schools in this state. But the highest earners also come from all different schools — not just the so-called "wealthy" districts that routinely rank highly on national and state lists for best schools.
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Superintendents, including years of service and New Jersey rank:
No. 27: Margaret Hayes, Superintendent, Scotch Plains-Fanwood Regional, 15 years, $200,516
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Principals, including years of service and New Jersey rank:
No. 50: David Heisey, High School Principal, Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School, 34 years, $178,056
No. 135: Keving Holloway, Middle School Principal, Terrill Middle School, 14 years, $169,409
No. 472: Colleen Haubert, Elementary School Principal, Evergreen Elementary School, 24 years, $153,243
No. 518: Karen Wetherell, Elementary School Principal, J. Ackerman Coles Elementary School, 26 years, $152,007
No. 530: Jocelyn Dumaresq, Middle School Principal, Park Middle School, 9 years, $151,548
No. 557: Sasha Slocum, Elementary School Principal, William J. McGinn Elementary School, 7 years, $150,572
No. 651: Scott Bortnick, Elementary School Principal, Howard B. Brunner Elementary School, 10 years, $147,672
No. 921: Justin Fiory, Elementary School Principal, School One Elementary, 14 years, $140,250
In 2017-2018, the median salary for administrators totaled $123,906, according to a Patch analysis of salary data for public school districts and charter schools. The increase was about 1 percent higher than the previous year.
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