Education

Employee salaries from more St. Clair County schools added to BND Public Pay Database

The salaries and wages of 650 employees in six St. Clair County school districts have been added to the Belleville News-Democrat’s Public Pay Database.

The highest-paid school employees in Belleville BASSC, Millstadt, Shiloh, Brooklyn, Smithton and St. Libory were the superintendents and the executive director of the county’s special education cooperative.

Here are their earnings for last year, which were provided to the BND through public records requests:

Former Millstadt District 160 Superintendent Jonathan Green: $132,828.09 (Brad Landgraf took over as Millstadt’s superintendent Aug. 1.)

Belleville Area Special Services Cooperative Executive Director Jeff Daugherty: $125,018

Shiloh District 85 Superintendent Dale Sauer: $122,756.39

Brooklyn District 188 Superintendent and Principal Ronald Ferrell: $119,150.53

Smithton District 130 Superintendent Ryan Wamser: $116,299.92

St. Libory District 30 Superintendent Thomas Rude: $64,875

Daugherty’s wages at BASSC include only his base salary. Information about any stipends or overtime he might have earned was not available.

Brooklyn, Smithton and St. Libory districts provided salary information for the calendar year, from Jan. 1, 2018-Dec. 31, 2018, while other districts provided the budget year, July 1, 2017-June 30, 2018. In each case, they are the latest figures available.

The BND previously published salary information for other school employees in Belleville, Swansea and Fairview Heights.

To view the BND’s Public Pay Database, go to bnd.com/publicpay.

Lexi Cortes
Belleville News-Democrat
The metro-east is home for investigative reporter Lexi Cortes. She was raised in Granite City and Edwardsville and graduated from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 2014. Lexi joined the Belleville News-Democrat in 2014 and has won multiple state awards for her investigative and community service reporting. Support my work with a digital subscription
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