Superintendent Highest Paid Avon Employee - Hartford Courant
Mala's Compensation Totals $208,000
April 12, 2012|By JULIE STAGIS,
jstagis@courant.com, The Hartford
Courant
AVON — —
Every year,
the Avon Taxpayers Association releases a book
containing the budgeted salaries and benefits of all town employees
for the coming year. Here are the top 10 highest paid employees for Avon schools and the town for 2012-2013, and the
compensation for each.
TOP 10 HIGHEST PAID AVON EMPLOYEES
Superintendent
Gary Mala: salary:
$175,000; benefits other than retirement: $33,040; total compensation,
excluding retirement: $208,040
Avon High School
Principal Jason Beaudin: salary: $147,310; benefits other than retirement:
$27,812; total compensation, excluding retirement: $174,122
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Genevieve Reilly February 7, 2012
Fairfield Citizen
http://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/news/article/School-chief-outstrips-others-on-Fairfield-11-3080434.php
Superintendent
of Schools David Title stands alone at the top of the class for salaries paid Fairfield's public
employees in 2011, out-earning everyone by more than $100,000.
Title,
hired as the town's schools chief in 2010, had gross earnings of $273,736 last
year. He received no raise last year, but the Board of Education did award him a $10,000
bonus. Title's contract calls for annual compensation of $260,000, with a base
salary of $225,000, a $22,000 tax-sheltered annuity and $13,000 in deferred
compensation. He also could potentially be paid another $12,000 bonus
this year.
"I
would just like to say Dr. Title is a Harvard-educated PhD who brings
tremendous business and educational experience to the district," Board of
Education Chairwoman Pam Iacono said, "and I think that his salary is
commensurate with his peers."
The next
highest-paid public employee was police Lt. Keith Broderick, who grossed $173,641 last
year, with $24,463 of the extra pay above his roughly $89,000 base salary
coming from outside service jobs -- work paid by the private company hiring the
officer, not the town.
"This
is 18 years of service," Broderick, who is the police union president,
said of his salary, which also reflects his three promotions. It is not a job,
he said, where he could leave and go to another department and earn the
same amount.
Broderick
also estimated he received about $15,000 for police training classes he
conducted, as well as police overtime and a shift differential for working
evening and midnight shifts.
For those
who fault police personnel working outside duty jobs, Broderick said, it is no
different than those in other professions who work a second job.
"We
are in the bottom third for pay scale for police departments in Connecticut," he
said. "Eighteen years ago, we were in the top third, now we are in the
bottom third."
Assistant
Superintendent of Schools Margaret Mary Fitzgerald is third-highest earner on
the Fairfield
wage list with 2011 gross income of $171,392.
Spots
four through eight on the list are held by Police Department because of
overtime and outside pay, while educators round out the top ten list.
The first
town hall employee to crack the 2011 list of highest wages is Public Works
Director Richard White, who had gross earnings of
$153,240, good for the 21st spot. Police Chief Gary MacNamara ranks 23rd with earnings of
$150,976, while his counterpart Fire Chief Richard Felner takes the 24th spot with
$150,812.
First
Selectman Michael Tetreau's annual salary of $127,620 doesn't even rank his pay
among the top-50 wages.
The only
other town hall employee to make it into the top-50 wage earners, besides
White, is Fiscal Officer Paul Hiller. Hiller's $136,903 in compensation
last year ranked him 46th on the list.
Contact Genevieve Reilly at 203-556-2771,
greilly@ctpost.com, http://twitter.com/GreillyPost
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School Superintendent City's Top Wage
Earner For Second Year
http://middletown-ct.patch.com/articles/top-wage-earners
Eight of Middletown's
highest 15 six-figure salaries are paid to police officers. By Cassandra Day February 27, 2012
For the
second year in a row, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Michael J. Frechette is the
city of Middletown's
top wage earner, according to figures released Feb. 23 by the payroll
department.
Half of the
top 10 salaries were taken home this year by Middletown Police officers. Last year, six of the
top 10 were police personnel *(see note below).
Frechette
earned $154,990.61, slightly less than what he made the previous year,
$155,735.26, and just above that of the second-highest paid employee, Acting
Police Capt. Michael S. Timbro, $154,551.38.
Acting City Attorney Timothy Lynch is third, at
$146,990.26; and Acting Police Chief William N. McKenna fourth at $143,878.51.
Eight of the
city's top 15 wage earners are Middletown
Police officers, compared to seven last year. Earlier this month, the Common
Council voted unanimously to approve the police union contract through June 30,
2013.
Associate
Superintendent for Teaching & Learning Barbara Senges is the fifth highest
wage earner this year, with $142,362.30; last year she took in $139,057.49.
In
comparison, Meriden's Superintendent of Schools Dr. Mark
Benigni is in year two of a three-year contract in the $160,000 range.
Middletown Mayor Dan Drew earns $78,332,80, the same as Sebastian N. Giuliano
did upon leaving office last November.
In May of
2010, Frechette received the prestigious Outstanding Superintendent Award from the Neag School of Education
Alumni Society of the University
of Connecticut. He earned
a Ph.D. in 1987 from UConn's Neag
School.
The city is
actively seeking a city attorney to replace Deputy City Attorney Lynch, who has
been acting city attorney for three years. The posted salary for city attorney
is $85,800 to $126,984.
Middletown
High School Principal Robert C. Fontaine, who this year made $133,573.25,
announced he will retire this summer after 14 years at Middletown High.
Assistant Principal Colleen Weiner will replace him.
* Editor's Note: According to
Payroll Administrator Linda Salafia, police personnel salaries above include
private duty work and overtime. Middletown
Patch will be running a follow-up story shortly that breaks out police
department base salaries. Check back for updates.
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