New Schenectady superintendent to make $215k salary, approaching highest-paid district leaders in region | The Daily Gazette
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Schenectady City School District’s incoming superintendent Anibal Soler, Jr. will enter the district at a starting salary that will rank him among all but the highest-paid district leaders in the Capital Region.
With a starting salary of $215,000 under the contract unanimously approved by the school board last week, Soler is slated to earn a salary higher than all but three other district superintendents in the nearly 60 districts across seven Capital Region counties.
The superintendents at Shenendehowa, Ballston Spa and Troy school districts all top salaries of $215,000, but Soler is set to make a larger salary at Schenectady next year than Albany Superintendent Kaweeda James, who has led Albany schools since 2017, according to state data on administrator pay. (Since benefits packages range widely among superintendents, some superinte