Syracuse, NY — Just two school employees in the counties around Syracuse earned more than $200,000 during the 2022-2023 school year, according to state data.
Thomas Colabufo, Central Square superintendent, and Christopher Byrne, Phoenix superintendent, were the only two school workers in Cayuga, Cortland, Madison and Oswego counties to earn that much last year. Colabufo was the highest-paid school employee in those four counties with pay of $215,156.02.
Most of the highest-paid school workers in the region last year were superintendents. They accounted for 17 of the 25 top earners in those four counties.
You can see the full list of the top 25 highest-paid school workers in the counties around Syracuse in the table below. If you can’t see the table, click here to open it in a new window.
Syracuse.com | The Post-Standard obtained the school payroll records through Freedom of Information Law requests to the New York State Teachers’ Retirement System and the New York State Comptroller’s Office. The numbers reflect earnings reported to those entities used in pension calculations.
Syracuse.com will publish payroll information for the Syracuse City School District in the coming weeks. A look at the highest-paid employees in Onondaga County suburban schools is available now.
You can search salary information for more than 9,800 school employees in districts in Cayuga, Cortland, Madison and Oswego counties using the tool below. Enter a full or partial name in either or both of the name boxes and choose which district and/or county you want to search from the list boxes.
To view a sortable table of all salaries in the districts, select “all counties” and “all districts” in the list boxes and hit search.
If you can’t see the search tool, click here to open it in a new window.
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