Superintendent's Salary Increased to $220K

Superintendent Brian Osborne will take home $220,001 after the South Orange – Maplewood Board of Education Monday voted unanimously to award a bonus.  His current salary is $208,000. 

Osborne, who is a finalist for the superintendent position in Ann Arbor, MI, has a 3-percent bonus built into his contract, contingent upon meeting expectations. For outstanding achievement, based on test scores in spring of 2012, progress against district goals and his strategic guidance to prepare district for education reform, the BOE thinks he has exceeded the board’s expectations in all areas, Board President Beth Daugherty said. 

As part of the increase, Osborne was voted $5,586, which represents salary from the 2011-12 and 2012-13 school years.  That money was previously approved by the BOE, but denied by County Superintendent in what Daugherty said was in violation of Osborne’s employee contract.

The increase is retroactive to July 1, 2013. Board members Andrea Wren-Hardin and Bill Gaudelli were absent on Monday for the vote.

Due to Governor Chris Christie’s caps on superintendent pay, Osborne’s salary will drop to about $167,500 after his contract with the district expires in June 2014.  The Arbor position has a salary range of $180,000 to $220,000.

edited because a paragraph was repeated in error