I take it this is just salaries and does not have any benefits in these numbers ??? If so what is the rough percentage of benefits to salaries ?? and WOW is all I can say.

Don't see what Jeffrey Smith & Michelle Readinger do for their "paltry" sum. Do they just show up & get paid? I would think there are the great benifits on top of these numbers too...Wow!!!!

PA does well in keeping administrative costs down in public schools http://www.pasa-net.org/WPaper2011.pdf

East Penn does better than most:
Staffing Ratios – East Penn School District 2009-10 staffing ratios according to the PA Schools Boards Association.
East Penn has 14.86 students per faculty member while the state average is 13.2
East Penn has 211.1 students per manager while the state average is 163.4
http://www.eastpennsd.org/Administration/Superintendent.html?newpath=Student%20Services/HOMEBOUND

I think they are all over paid with our tax money !

This is "WAY OUT OF LINE", there are many, many families are really hurting and you, the school board, raised taxes to do this. What has happened to common sense, lets vote them "ALL OUT". We need someone who cares.

Worth every penny.

Special thanks to the administrators for freezing their pay last year. That went a long way in helping the Superintendent to keep the budget well within the index this year despite the murderous treatment by the state.

This is outrageous in a recession with the threat & follow thru for higher taxes...NEVER LET IT BE SAID that administrators are under PAID!!! A Private assistant??? What is that??? Why is that even necessary???
I accept you have a great district but I would like to welcome you into my financial reality as a resident...I trust each & every one of you has extreme gratitude & whistle while you work...Certainly nothing is too much to ask of you with these type of salaries & benefits!!!

Never let these Administrators talk about Wall Street salaries & bonuses...I can not even begin to express how outrageous this feels!!! How's this... who are the people that approved this agregous request? Do they actually work for a living? These salaries for the most part are excessive! And I realize the reciprocants do not think so BUT they are way above the average monies earned by the private sector in the state of PA!!! And this is NON UNION!!! I do not want to hear ONE WORD about the salaries of teachers after this!!!

Hey George...wake up. Fantastic job remains to be seen. EPSD raised taxes, to accommodate what? A raise for non-union employees! You need to work in the real world, those who are working their a$$ off to pay these unspeakable salaries. What is a "confidential assistant? Seems to me there are exactly toooo many chiefs and not enough Indians in this district. I absolutely agree..ALL NEED TO BE REMOVED!,,

Maybe there would be a small group of teachers who could get together on "in service" days to take care of some of the medial tasks that are presently taken care of by administration that makes alot more money than the teachers. The teachers would of course be compensated for the extra effort of an hour or two for the bunch of them, then we can get rid of some really expensive paper shufflers!

The salaries are the salaries but do they vote on their own raises ? If I voted on my own raise i would vote yes too. If they do just like politicians do there needs to be checks and balances that's all i ask for. I think people should stop bitc@ing about the amount and bitc@ about the process.

Thank you George F Doughty for your revelation. I am not a fan of Wall Street by any stretch. What I am outraged about is that these are not teachers they are administrators...Personally I think PA has way too many districts and a redundancy of positions...
The bigger point to be made is this...the wages in PA are not nearly this high for the people living here in private secter or union workers. I am curious how in a recession when so many are cutting back, dropping cable tv, counting pennies People actually ask & receive bonuses & increases. When the taxes go up who do I pass that on to???
However, I do appreciate your statements and interest in this matter...

I certainly hope this will wake up people in East Penn School District. To answer the qustion of who approved it - please be advised that it was approved with a 5 -2 vote of the school board members and one director who abstained. Lynn Donches and Julian Stoltz are working hard for fiscal responsibilty. This is our tax money. My word, to compare this to wall street executive pay is just crazy as we are not paying the wall street salaries. I would not argue with raises for the bottom 12 people on the list. Thank you to THE PATCH for posting this information. But keep in mind that the School Board raises our taxes every year with no reguard to senior citizens who are trying to hang on to their homes.

Over the past 2 years East Penn has made many cuts to keep costs down. Go to the school baord minutes from 5/14 to fact check: http://www.eastpennsd.org/School%20Board/ On page 9 Dr. Torma gives an extensive list of cost saving measures. The measures include downsizing teaching, administrative, and support staff and cutting budgets in different parts of the district inculding administrative areas.

As of the 2009-10 school year (the last year for which comparative data is available), East Penn had the 426th lowest per-student expenditures for administration of the 500 school districts in Pennsylvania. We also ranked 271st lowest in overall per student expenditures, about 1.4% below the median. (Source: http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/summaries_of_annual_financial_report_data/7673/afr_excel_data_files/509047)

In my opinion, we produce well above average results for a below average expenditure of funds. Are we satisfied? No. We will keep working on both improving student results and controlling our costs.

Pension reform.... I'll just keep saying it. these pay raises are just a tiny drop in the bucket to what is coming. I have no prolem with 90% of the wages the teachers and some of the admin makes. BUT I am totally against using taxpayer money to fund a pension. take the money that each one contrbutes invest it and reap the profits when it was a great investment and suffer like the rest of everyone else when it doesn't. And Alan and Optimist, that is great that we rank where we do but my question is what makes the bar or standard that we compare to correct ???? private sector has shown over the last few years that you can get by with much much less administrative costs, and in alot of cases be much better off. East Penn School District is a great school district but if we don't watch,we will be another Allentown with people leaving because of not being able to afford taxes anymore

Alan Earnshaw, the apologist for higher taxes, likes to quote statistics that support his beliefs that the school bureaucracy is underpaid, He is the proud recipient of a PSEA award after giving away the store to the unions a few years back. He was beaming ear to ear-nshaw. Best school director that unions could buy.

This school board is selling out our children with debt. We are living beyond our means in the East Penn School District. We are clearly living beyond our means with a debt in our school district in the vacinity of $150,000,000.00. If we were paying for the education, that would be one thing. But, we are strapping our children with ongoing debt from this education since we are living beyond our means. And, the school board just plays a game with words telling us why this is acceptable since everyone else is spending too much money too. What an insane arguement we hear from the school baord over and over. It is like falling down a rabbit hole and a scene from Alice in Wonderland every time I attend a school board meeting. We are drownding in debt, and please stop telling us that it is completely acceptable to have a debt around $150,000,000.00 to $160,000,000.00 just because other school districts are also on an path to destruction and laden with bloated salaries, debt, and exploding property taxes.

KUDO,s to the school board memebers for giving the raises. After all it is okay for 27 students to share 4 computers in class, the students use paper rulers to measure, and East Penn has fallen behind since Dr. Leary left. They cut busing for students for raises. A small school district like Southern Lehigh is presently in the process of giving all high school students their own computers and even the elementry students have a one to one use of computers. This is what happens when people cannot think for themselves and are nothing more then puppets. That is why the news release of the supeintendents contract was out before his raise was released.