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UPDATED: 20 Highest Paid VVSD Administrators

Valley View School District 365U approved its annual administrator and teacher salary and benefits report Monday night.

The Valley View School District 365U school board approved its annual administrator and teacher salary and benefits report Monday night. School districts are required by state law to post the report by Oct. 1 each year. 

Editor's note: We post this information because we know it is of interest to our readers, the taxpayers, whose property taxes are the largest source of income for the school district. 

Compare Valley View with other districts in this 2011 article. Another article will be posted Wednesday with the 2012 information. You can view the 2011 Administrator Salary Compensation Report here. 

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While the 2011 report breaks down benefits into specific insurance and pension information, the 2012 report does not break down the numbers into more specific information.

You can view the full 2012 VVSD report here.  

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Name Position Base Salary Enhancements Other benefits Total James Mitchem Superintendent $191,345 $24,669 $216,014 Garrick Grizaffi Assistant Superintendent of Administrative Services $171,000 $22,046 $193,046 Michael Lopez Facility Operations and Maint. Director $139,710 $9,920

$149,630

Rachel Kinder Assistant Superintendent of Education 6-12 $130,673 $16,847 $147,520 Venus Smith Assistant Superintendent of Education K-5 $130,673 $13,558 $144,231 Fabby Williams Bolingbrook High School Principal $130,673 $13,558 $144,231 Christopher Schaeflein Jane Addams Middle School Principal $126,393 $16,295 $142,688 Derek Kinder Romeoville High School Principal $123,798 $15,961 $139,759 Elizabeth Martinez Director of Professional Development $126,969 $11,842 $138,811 Michele Romolt Principal, Jonas E. Salk Elementary School $117,123 $7,757 $12,152 $137,032 Karen Page Phoenix Experience Director $113,540 $11,354 $124,894 Joanne Bourg Finance Director $114,490 $8,129 $122,619 S. James Boudouris Athletic Director, Romeoville High School $104,382 $6,913 $10,830 $122,125 Keith Wood Brooks Middle School Principal $106,538 $13,478 $120,016 Daniel Laverty Humphrey Middle School Principal $106,274 $13,599 $119,873 Alec Anderson Athletic Director, Bolingbrook High School $107,514 $11,155 $118,669 J. Sharon Hawks Executive Director of Human Resources $109,297 $7,760 $117,057 Donald Tufano Director of Instructional Technology $103,383 $13,329 $116,712 Donna Nylander Principal, Early Childhood Center $98,468 $6,521 $10,216 $115,205 Ricardo Sanchez-Lopez  Director of Bilingual Education $103,872 $10,777 $114,649

Editor's note: The previous data posted included some errors, including the absence of Assistant Superintendent Venus Smith on the list. Those errors have been corrected. The district also changed the "Retirement" heading to "Enhancements" in an updated document. 


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