Over 100 NYS school officials raked in $300k last year and 174 made more than Hochul

And they get summers off!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 na...