Southeast PA’s Highest Paid School Admins: See Breakdown By County

PENNSYLVANIA - More than 1,450 Pennsylvania administrators made salaries of $150,000 per year or more and nine made over $300,000 a year during the 2022-23 school year, according to the latest data from the state Department of Education.

The latest figures represent an increase from 1,200 administrators — including superintendents, principals and assistant principals, curriculum directors and other employees in administrative positions — who made at least $150,000 during the 2021-22 school year, based on Patch analysis.

If you’re a superintendent in the Keystone State, you’re in luck: Pennsylvania superintendents report making an average of $160,000, slightly above the national average of $156,468, per the School Superintendents Association.

Some of the state's highest-paid administrators received generous pay increases between the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school year. For instance, Joseph Driscoll of the Marple Newtown School District saw a 13 percent salary increase year-over-year; Jill Hackman of Berks County Intermediate Unit No. 14 saw more than an 18 percent payroll jump.

Here are southeast Pennsylvania's highest-paid school administrators, along with their school district and their salaries:

Berks County

JILL HACKMAN, Berks County Intermediate Unit No. 14: $252,000

Last year's salary: $212,166

Percent increase: 18.77 percent

Bucks County

MARK HOFFMAN, Bucks County Intermediate Unit No. 22: $236,900

Last year's salary: $209,586

Percent increase: 13.03 percent

Chester County

JOHN SANVILLE, Unionville-Chadds Ford School District: $310,246

Last year's salary: $298,314

Percent increase: 4 percent

Delaware County

JOSEPH DRISCOLL, Marple Newtown School District: $285,500

Last year's salary: $252,609

Percent increase: 13 percent

Lancaster County

BRIAN TROOP, Ephrata Area School District: $214,133

Last year's salary: $204,912

Percent increase: 5 percent

Lebanon County

PHILIP STEINOUR, Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit No. 13: $186,419

Last year's salary: $176,073

Percent increase: 5.88 percent

Lehigh County

JOHN STANFORD, Allentown City School District: $230,000

Last year's salary: N/A

Montgomery County

MICHAEL CHRISTIAN, Colonial School District: $275,400

Last year's salary: $262,526

Percent increase: 4.9 percent

Northampton County

WILLIAM HAWS, Bangor Area School District: $193,353

Last year's salary: $188,353

Percent increase: 2.65 percent

Philadelphia County

TONY WATLINGTON, Philadelphia City School District: $340,000

Last year's salary: N/A