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More than 100 New York educators outside the Big Apple raked in salaries over $300,000 this year — while nearly twice as many made more than the governor, a shocking new study found.
At least 114 educators made the six-figure sum in the 2025-2026 school year, a nearly 30% increase from the 90 who made that much across 2024 and 2025, according to a study the Empire Center released Tuesday.
Another 2,328 educators were paid over $200,000 in the 2025-2026 school year, 16% more than the previous year’s 2,005, according to the analysis.
And 174 of them made over $250,000 — the salary Gov. Kathy Hochul was paid to run the state, the data showed.
But some of the highest-paid educators were making nearly twice that to run school districts of only a few square miles, including Roslyn Union Free School District where superintendent Allison Feldman enjoyed a $436,976 last school year, the Empire Center found.
Great Neck UFSD’s superintendent Kenneth Bossert was paid $420,781 at the same time, while Oyster Bay-East Norwich CSD’s superintendent Francesco Ianni made $412,663, according to the study.
Those huge salaries reflect New York City’s books, where various administrators make piles of cash to oversee the Big Apple’s schools — including schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels, who makes about $363,000 per year.
The Empire Center study drew its findings from 239,288 public school staff — ranging from teachers to administrators — across the state.
The highest earners were concentrated around the city, with Long Island having the highest regional average educator pay of $121,047.
Long Island superintendents also made a median $302,277 per year.
Westchester County’s Scarsdale UFSD had the highest individual district average pay of $156,307 across its 541 educators, while lower Hudson Valley districts also had a high concentration of serious salaries.
Educators across the state overall were paid $99,652 per year on average.
That’s on par with the national average for higher education faculty salaries — which was about $105,657 in 2026, according to the the National Education Association.
The national pay for teachers, meanwhile, was $74,495.
New York’s huge staff salaries are fueling a ballooning education budget — which was $84.2 billion from 2024, up 16% from 2020’s $72.4 billion.
That sum has been skyrocketing despite enrollment dropping during that time, with state public schools losing about 322,808 in the last 15 years, the study found.
The state pays about $32,000 per student — one of the highest per-pupil costs in the country, about 81% higher than the national average.
But that cash doesn’t seem to be buying grades, with New York fourth and eighth graders ranking 22nd and 24th for reading on recent National Assessment of Educational Progress exams last year.
Math scores weren’t much better, with New York students coming in at 38th and 27th for fourth and eighth graders.
Those numbers also reflect a steady decline — with reading scores dropping 5% from last year, while fifth graders reading proficiency plunged 15%.
School officials were unavailable for comment Tuesday, with districts closed to observe Veterans Day.
