A total of 752 school district educators in the Mid-Hudson region 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, 34 were paid more than $300,000. The highest paid was Northeast CSD Superintendent Raymond Castellani, at $389,357.

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. The Mid-Hudson region’s 39,473 full-time educators averaged $117,045, second among the state’s nine regions outside New York City.

The Mid-Hudson region includes seven counties: Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester, as defined by the Office of the State Comptroller.

The full payroll data is available at SeeThroughNY.net.

School districts and BOCES in the Mid-Hudson region paid their 46,666 educators a total of $4.7 billion. A total of 54.3 percent were paid $100,000 or more, compared with 34.6 percent statewide.

Among the findings:

• Of the region’s 113 districts and BOCES, 93 averaged more than $100,000 for full-time educators. Scarsdale UFSD had the highest average, $156,307, and Liberty CSD the lowest, $88,689.
• The region’s median full-year superintendent was paid $279,225, second of nine regions, compared with $215,922 statewide. A total of 54 superintendents were paid more than the governor’s $250,000 salary.
• School districts in the Mid-Hudson region spent $14,166 in educator pay per student, second of nine regions, compared with $12,345 statewide.
• In Rockland County, the median full-time educator was paid $124,270, 60 percent more than the median full-time worker living there ($77,710).

Ten Highest-Paid Educators – Mid-Hudson

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

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