A total of 1,361 school district educators on Long Island were paid more than $200,000 in fiscal year 2025-26, according to payroll data reported to the New York State Teachers’ Retirement System (NYSTRS). Of those, 75 were paid more than $300,000. The highest paid was Roslyn UFSD Superintendent Allison Feldman, at $436,976.

Statewide, the 239,288 public school teachers, superintendents, principals and other administrators employed outside New York City were paid a total of $19.4 billion, according to the Empire Center’s annual educator pay report. Full-time educators averaged $99,652. Long Island’s 51,725 full-time educators averaged $121,047, the highest among the state’s nine regions outside New York City.

Long Island includes two counties: Nassau and Suffolk, as defined by the Office of the State Comptroller.

The full payroll data is available at SeeThroughNY.net.

School districts and BOCES on Long Island paid their 65,736 educators a total of $6.4 billion. A total of 52.9 percent were paid $100,000 or more, compared with 34.6 percent statewide.

Among the findings:

• Of the region’s 126 districts and BOCES, 121 averaged more than $100,000 for full-time educators. Jericho UFSD had the highest average, $149,994, and Greenport UFSD the lowest, $94,412.
• The region’s median full-year superintendent was paid $302,277, the highest of nine regions, compared with $215,922 statewide. A total of 89 superintendents were paid more than the governor’s $250,000 salary.
• School districts on Long Island spent $14,766 in educator pay per student, the highest of nine regions, compared with $12,345 statewide.
• In Suffolk County, the median full-time educator was paid $125,765, 59 percent more than the median full-time worker living there ($78,855).

Ten Highest-Paid Educators – Long Island

Figures are gross pay reported to NYSTRS for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026, and do not include fringe benefits such as health insurance and employer pension contributions. Full-time educators are those paid more than the annualized state minimum wage ($32,240). Tallies exclude community colleges, charter schools, the Education Department, vocational boards and the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Explore the Data

The tables below open filtered to Long Island. Use the filters to see any other region.

Payroll records for every school district and BOCES can be searched at the Empire Center’s transparency website, SeeThroughNY.net.